with the Priviledge that the ffreeholders of said Manor may elect and Return one Deputy or Representative to sitt in the Gen" Assembly to Represent the ffreeholders and Inhabitants of the same and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray.

Rt Livingston.

•»• The original of the above Petition is much damaged. Where the words are within [] we have endeavored to supply the deficiency. But the other blanks are beypnd cure, the paper being wholly destroyed. Ed.

ORDER IN COUNCIL THEREUPON.

[Counc. Min. XI.]

At a Council held at Fort Anne in New York the 19*^ day of November 1713. Present .His excellency Robert Hunter Esqf and the other members of the Board.

The Petition of Robert Livingston Esq. for a Confirmation of his Patent for the Mannor of Livingston to

have leave to choose a Representative to sit in Assembly being

Ordered the said petition lye on the table.

AN ACCOUNT OF ROB ^ LIVINGSTON'S SALARY.

As one of ye Inspectors of ye Palatins & of y^ storige computed to ye 25 March 1714 which his ExceU: gov. hunter is charged withall. His Salary from 24th Augst 1710 to 1 Nov. 1711

included in ye gen" acct ^118 18 --

To ye 25 March 1712 included in ye gen" acct.. . 39 14 6

To ye 25 June 1712 included in ye ace* of Incidents 25

To ye 25 Sept. 1712 included in ye ace* of Incidents 25

To ye 25 of March 1713 included in ye acct of Incidents 50