Mr Jacob De Witt Capt Abram hasbroiek Capt Wessel tenbrok

Mr Saniler Roosekrans Mr Lawies Bovie Mr Albert Roosa Mr Cornels Swets

BY HIS EXCELLENCY William Burnd^ Esq; Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Provinces of New-York, New- Jersey and Territories depending thereon in America, and Vice- Admiral of the same, &c. in Council.

AN ORDINANCE

For Establishing a Court of Common-Pleas, and a Court of

General Sessions of the Peace in Dutches County m tlie

Province of New-York.

Wheheas intlie Establislimentsof the Courts of Common Pleas

and the General Sessions of the Peace hitherto in the County of

'Dutches^ on tlie East-Side of Hudsons River, over against tlie

C'.;unty of Vlster, there has ])een no Courts of Common Pleas or

General Sessions of the Peace Erected and Establislied to he

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holden and kept within tlie said County, but the Inhabitants of the same County have sometime formerly been subjected to the Jurisdiction of the Justices of the aforesaid County of Vlster. For Eemedy whereof for the Future, I have thought fit, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesties Council for the Province of J\^ew- York, and by virtue of the Power and Authority unto me given and granted under the Great Seal of Great Britain, and do hereby Erect, Establish and Ordain, That fi'om hence-forward there shall be held and kept at Poghkeepson, near the Center of the said County, a General Sessions of the Peace, on the third Tuesday in May, and tlie third Tuesday in October, yearly and every year for ever; which General Sessions of the Peace, in every Sessions, shall not continue for longer tlian Two Days, but may finish the busines of the Sessions, possibly, in one Day, and that from hence forward there shall be held and kept at Poghkepson, near the Center, of the said County, a Court of Common-Pleas to begin the next Day, after the said Courts of General Sessions of the Peace Terminates, and then only, if Busines require, to hold and continue for two Days next following, and no longer, with the like Power and Jurisdictions as other Courts of Common-Pleas in other Counties within the Province of Mew-York, have used and enjoyed, any former Ordinance, Practice or Usage to the Contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.