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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850. 417 words

MANOR OF LIVINGSTON. 699

ments at the said Court Leet and Court Baron to be sett, forfeited, or imposed, payable or happening at any time to be paya1:)le by any of the inhabitants of or Avitliin the said Lordship and Manor and the limitts and bounds thereof, and to award and issue out of the customary writts and process commonly issued and awarded out of the Courts in England, and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Robert Livingston, his heirs and assigns forever hereafter by himself or themselves or by his or their deputy or deputys, steward or stewards by Mm and them to be thereunto deputed and appointed to hold and keep the said courts within the said Manor, and to use and exercise all and singular the powers, jurisdictions and authoritys to such Courts belonging and usually appertaining, together also with tlie power and authority of distraining for the rents and services due or liereafter to become due and in arrear and to use, exercise and enjoy all other law full ways, remedy s and means whatsoever for the having, receiving, possessing, leveying and enjoying tlie premises and every one of them. Also, w^e have given and granted and do by these presents for us our heirs and successors, forever give and grant unto the said Robert Livingston, his heirs and assigns forever, all wafts, estrays, Deodands, wrecks, goods of felons liappening and being forfetted within the said Lordship and Manor, and all and every sumand sums of money to be paid as a fine, post iine upon any fine or fines hereafter to be leveyed of any lands, tenements or hereditaments within the said Lordship and Manor together with the advowson and right of patronage of all and every tlie Church and Churches erected and to be erected and built v«ithin the limitts and bounds of the said Lordsliip and Manor, as also that it shall and may be Lawfull to and for tlie stvid Robert Livingston, his heirs and assigns to summon and call together his or their tenants and inhabitants within the said Manor, when, where, and so often as there shall be occasion or need to choose Assessors and Collectors for the said Manor, and the freeholders and inliabitants thereof, which assessors and Collectors have and shall have like powder and authority to execute their respective offices as other Assessors and Collectors in the Citys, towns and Countys of the same province, or as directed