planck as aforesaid ; and thereupon for the regular admission of the said Philip, it was ordered that he should have leave to bring in a bill for that purpose; Wherefore and to the end such Representative may be more orderly and duly elected for the future." It was enacted ; -- first, that Verplanck's election should be confirmed ; second, that the Freeholders of the Manor should elect " a fit and discreet Inhabitant and Freeholder" of the Manor to represent it in the Assembly ; third that the Returning officer of the Manor should hold the elections precisely as the High Sheriff held the elections in the County, and be empowered to administer the same oaths ; * and fourth and last, the amendment reported by Col. Lewis Morris, Jr., which as it is both curious and interesting, is here given in full ; IV. Provided and Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said Manor of Cortlandt, shall at all times pay the Wages of their own Representative; and that nothing herein contained shall exempt them from paying their due and equal proportion of the Wages of the Deputies or Representatives for the County of Westchester, and of all other the annual publick, and necessary charges of the same County."* It is certainly very evident that the Assembly of 1734 did not believe in Representation without double taxation. There was probably some jealousy, or political feeling at the bottom of the insertion of this provision, for three years later, in 1737 it was unconditionally repealed by an Act passed on the 16th of December in that year,* except as to the general County charges. This act also fixed the " Wages " of the Representative of the Manor at "Six shillings for every day he attends the Service of the said Assembly," and expressly provided that the Inhabitants of the Manor should " only pay the charges and Wages of their own Representative."