Church and Minester that it may not be in his power or of any Incumbet to Ahenate or Convert tlie Same to any otlier use then as aforesaid And your Petitioners herein relieved as to Your Excellency's Wisdom may apper fit they as in Duty bound will ever pray.

8 October 1718. Eead & referred and ordered that the Petitioners do serve M^" Cockerill with a coppy of this Petition.

[No Report seems to have been made on this Petition. Ed.]

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL UPON THE PETITION OF CERTAIN PALATINES.

In pursuance of yc Honours reference made in Council the 17*ii of this Instant of the peticon of Andrew Volck and Jacob Webbers of the 17'^ December 1719 in behalf of themselves and the other palatins therein menconed We have perused inquired into and considered the same as also the letter of the then E* Honorable M'^ Secretary Boyle to the then Lord Lovelace in his lifetime of the 10ti» of August 1708 Governour of New York by her late Majesty of blessed memory her speciall directions in their favour, As likewise the return of the survey Card and ground platt of the late Surveyor Generall of A certain tract of land on the West side of Hudsons river above the high lands in the County of Vlster neer to a place called Quassaick containing two thousand one hundred and ninety acres laid out into nine lotts for the said palatins and a glebe of five hundred acres for a Lutheran minister and his successors forever. It being set forth in the s^ peticon, that their minister Joshua Cockershall Deceased for whom one of the said lotts is laid out, hath left a widdow & children Who survive him, and that Peter Rose, another of the said palatins for whom another lott of the said land of one hundred acres is laid out, hath sold and alienated