Retail liquor sellers are to be licensed at the discretion of the mayor, the annual license fee exacted being such sum of money as the licensee " shall agree for, not exceeding the sum of 20s." Finally the " mayor, aldermen, and common council*' are authorized "to return and send one discreet burgess of the sd town and borough into every general assembly hereafter to be summoned or holden within this our province of N. York/' Caleb Heathcote, as mayor, organized the government of the borough town on the (5th of June, 1096. In October of that year he presented the corporation with an official seal. The first representative in the assembly was Josiah Hunt, who served from 1702 to 1710. The subsequent representatives were Lewis Morris, Sr. (171028), Gilbert Willett (1728-32), Lewis Morris, Jr. (1732-50), Peter de Lancey (1750-68), Lewis Morris, 3d (1769), John de Lancey (1769-72), and Isaac Wilkins (1772-75) -- all men of distinction, force, and influential family connections. The official style of "the Borough and

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New-York Gazette Front September 26. to Monday October $. 1726. A Lift of the Names of the prefenf .Reprefentatives ■EUtledand chofen by the ftverdtCUtes and Counties jn tkft Colony to jerve &Qimf0fj0Mlfa& For the City *nd County of Ne%-York, ' Efq; , Speak StephenPhiltp De fe,Lanccy Ef<# er^ A Dolph Capt. Gerrit Van Horns, Capt. Anthony, Rutgreft, For the Ctty and Qounty of Albany, RyerGerrttJe, Efc.; Coll. Mjndert Schuyla ■, Capt. Jacob Glen, Capt. Jeremiah Kanftaer, Mr. Robert Livmgji on,. jun._ For the County of Ulftsr, Coll. Abraham Gaasbeck. Chan bers, " Mr. (Albert Pawling, For Dutchcfs County, Mf. Henry Bcekman, Mr". Joha^ACi vanKlecb^ the Morris. Burrbugh «f Weflchejl<r'k Coll. For Leuii