The Rent Service on which the Manor was held, was " Forty shillings current money of our said Province " (five dollars), payable "at our city of New York on the feast day of the Annunciation of our blessed Virgin Mary." The peculiar franchises of the Manor of Cortlandt were two only, the Rangership of the Manor, and the right to be represented by its own member in the General Assembly after the expiration of twenty years next ensuing the date of the Manor Grant, the 17th of June 1()97. In this as in all the other Manor-Grants was a clause giving to the Lord and his heirs the right for his tenants to meet and choose assessors and provide for public charges in accordance with the general laws of the Province.

Like all the other Manor-Grants silver and gold mines were excepted from the grant and reserved to the Crown. This reservation was actually acted upon by the Crown in the case of this Manor. And the last century a Crown-grant was made of a silver mine which was discovered just by Sing Sing village. But space will not permit more than this mention of the fact.

"Rangers" were sworn ofiicers of the Crown, to whom were granted by the Sovereign the " Royal rights or franchises, of waifs, estrays, hunting, royal fish, treasure trove, mines, deodands, forfeitures, and the like. They were appointed, either, by a special royal grant, over a special district, which was the more usual, or else, as in this instance, the franchise was named among others in the grant of a Manor. The appointment by Governor Hunter on September 4th, 1710, of Major Thomas Jones, of Fort Neck, Queens County, the grandfather of Judge Thomas Jones the author of the " History of New York during the Revolutionary War " as 'Ranger-General of Long Island ' is an instance of the former.