Be it Enacted by his Krcellency the Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly, and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same,' That by all the Islands lying and being in the Sound to the Eastward of Frog's Neck, and to the Northward of the Main Channel, and as far Eastward as Captain's Island, including the same, together with all that part of the Sound, included within these Boundaries shall be and remain in the County of Westchester ; and all the Southernmost part of the Sound from the bounds aforesaid sis far as Queens County extends Eastward, shall be, and is hereby, annexed to Queens County ; and all that part Hud sons River, which adjoins the County of Westchester, and is to the Southward of the County of Orange;'' or so much thereof as is included within this Province, and the Easternmost half Part of said River, from the Southermost Bounds of the County of Orange, to the Northermost Bounds of the County of Westchester, shall also be and remain in the said County of Westchester.

1 J I. Van Scliaack's Laws cli. 1376, p. 'HI.

- This was Uie I'onu of enacting clause used in tlie Colouial T.egislature of New York.

^ Orange then inchuleJ wliol is now Rockland County.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

II. The second cliiuse enacts that " The Middle of the said (Hudson) River shall be, and is hereby dci-hired to bo, the Boundary Line between the said (bounties of (>ranc/r and Westchester," and tliat the western half "is declared to be included in, and annexed to the said County of Oranf^c, together with all , the Islands included within the said Rounds."