publication, be presented to the Chief Magistrate and his approval thereof requested.

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PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND. 10.

The said Sheriff and Schepens shall be bound strictly to observe and cause to be observed the

Placards and Ordinances which shall be enacted and published by the supreme authority, and not suffer any thing to be done against them, but cause the Transgressors therein to be proceeded against according to the tenor thereof; and further, promptly execute such orders as the Governour General

shall send them from time to time. The Sheriff and Schepens shall be also obliged to acknowledge as their Sovereign Rulers thenHigh Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands and his Serene Highness the Lord Prince of Orange and to maintain their sovereign jurisdiction, right and domain over this

country.

The selection of all inferior officers and servants in the employ of said Sheriff and Schepens, the Secretary alone excepted, shall be made and confirmed by themselves. 13. The Sheriff shall, by himself or deputies execute all the Magistrates' judgments nor discharge 12.

any one except by advice of the Court

;

he shall also take good care that the places under his charge

shall be cleansed of all mobs, gamblers, whorehouses and such like impurities.

14.

The Sheriff shall receive the half of all civil fines accruing during his term of office together

with one third part of what belongs to the respective Villages from criminal cases neither directly nor indirectly receive any presents forbidden by law.