One of the chief enactments of the assembly of 1683 was a proposed "Charter of Liberties and Priviledges, granted by his Royal Highness to the Inhabitants of New York and its dependencies,"* which, however, was disapproved when transmitted to England. Indeed, before the time for the convening of the second general assembly arrived, this representative body was abolished altogether, the Duke of York having mounted the throne as James II. and having come to the conclusion that it was not expedient for the people of It was not until 1691, the province to participate in its government. embraced County 1 Duke's Vineyard, ' Elizabeth tha's

MarNantucket, No and Island,

Man's Land; and Cornwall County comprised Pemaquid and adjacent territory in Maine.

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after the accession of William and Mary, that the assembly again came together, to continue as a permanent institution. The basis of the New York and Connecticut boundary agreement of October, 1664, as understood by Governor Mcolls and as uniformly insisted upon by the New York provincial government, was a line starting at a point on the Sound twenty miles from the Hudson Eiver. It was represented to Nieolls by the Connecticut commissioners that this point was at the mouth of the Mamaroneck Eiver -- a very convenient place, moreover, from the Connecticut point of view, for the line to begin, since it would just take in the Eye settlement. So the starting point was fixed at the Maniaroneck's mouth, whence the boundary was to run north-northwest until it should intersect the southern line <>f Massachusetts. Here, again, great injustice was done to New York; for this north-northwest line would cut the Hudson below the Highlands, utterly dismembering the Province of New York, and giving to Connecticut all of the river above the Highlands, including the settlements at Albany and other places along the stream.