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feeling at the bottom of the insertion of this provision, for three years later, in 1737 it was unconditionally repealed by an Act passed on the 16th of December in that year,* except as to the general County charges.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."

It also provided for the annual election in the Manor of " one Supervisor, one Treasurer, two Assessors, and one Collector " with all the powers and duties of those oflBcers in the Counties of the Province, pursuant to "The Act" of William and Mary of 1691, " for defraying the public charges of the Province, maintaining the poor, and preventing vagabonds." This was the first time these officers became necessary in the Manor.

Elected and admitted to his seat under this franchise in 1734, Philip Verplanck was constantly reelected to subsequent Assemblies and sat for the Manor of Cortlandt continuously up to the year 1768, the long period of thirty-four years. A continuous period of service without a parallel in Province of New York, and which has never occurred under the State of New York. The nearest approach to it under the State Government, singularly enough, being

<Sce pp. 110, 111, AnU.

6 1. V. S. Laws, chap. 607, p. 183.