On August 21st the deputies delivered their credentials ' and oflered to submit to ^ the Dutch, and to report to the Council the names of [ the persons whom they had nominated as magistrates.

The next day they delivered up the flag and the constables' staves, and having joined in a respectful j petition of submission, they were granted the same j rights and privileges as the Dutch inhabitants, and ; pardoned for their past errors in coquetting with the English, with the warning however, that in future they should demean themselves as loyal subjects. On August 30th the Council appointed as schepens or

1 It miiAt be reinenibereil that east of the BroDX, Westchester belonged to the Long IshtuJ juriB<liction, while the section weet of that ^ river owed allegiance to the Harlem and New York City authorities. I -The records of this ancient borough are now on tile, in excellent J condition, in the otiice of the register of the county. They are too 1 extended for quotation in this history, but the writer sugt^esls that I some patriotic citizen of the old township will add to our documentary history by contributing to the New Vorli or Westchester Historical So- I ciely funds sutlicient to have them properly e<Iited, as the old records I have been in other parts of this country by other societies. I 3 Bancroft, vol. ii.; also N. Y. Hist. Doc., 373, ii. 580-581, 621-622.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

magistrates JoseiDh Palmer and Edward Waters, who were sworn in on the following 2d of Sejitember, and on the 1st of October provisional instructions were issued for the government of the magistrates. They were to take care that the Reformed Christian religion should be maintained in uniformity with the Synod of Dort. Jurisdiction in ca.'ses not involving over sixty florins beaver was given to the magistrates, from whose decision no appeal could be taken.