By this measure the whole of the former Township of Yonkers, excepting a strip at its southern extremity, was incorporated in the new city. The southern strip excluded from the city limits extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to a point on the Hudson beginning at " the northerly line of the land belonging to the Sisters of Charity, known as Mount Saint Vincent de Paul," which line was continued eastward along specified bounds to the Bronx River. The portion of the ancient territory of Yonkers thus reserved continued, however, to belong to Yonkers Township until the 16th of December, 1S72, when it was set off by the board of supervisors as a separate township, receiving the name of the Town of Kingsbridge. The City of Yonkers has preserved to the present day the exact limits appointed to it by the act of 1872. It has an area of seventeen and one-half square miles. At the first election held for city officers, Mr. James C. Courter and Mr. Robert P. Getty were, respectively, the Democratic and Republican candidates. Mr. Courter received a majority.1 John F. Brennan, E. L. Seger, Albert Keeler, William MacFarlane, Ethan Flagg, II. L. Garrison, Henry R. Hicks, and Z. H. Brower were chosen aldermen. "When the city was incorporated," says Allison, tk it had no asphalt avenues and streets, no waterworks to supply water for domestic use, for power, and for extinguishing fires, no system of sewers, no firebells, no electric fire-alarm, and no electric lights. There were no steam cars running to Getty Square, no street cars." Prom the 1 Mayors of the City of Yonkers to the present time: 1872-74, James C. Courter; 1874-76, Joseph Masten; 1876-78, William A. Gibson; 1878-80, Joseph Masten; 1s,nii-nl'. Norton P. Otis; 1882 S4,