fhall for ever thereafter be held in the fame place, as near as may be; and giving and granting to the faid officers fo chofen power and authority to exercife their faid feveral and refpective offices during one whole year from fuch election and until others are legally chofen and elected in their room and stead, as fully and amply as any the like officers have, or legally may use or exercise their offices in our faid province.

cancies in the

moval of the

perfons who their refufal to

held them, or

And in cafe any or either of the faid officers of the faid township Accidental vafhould die, or remove from the faid townthip, before the time of faid offices by their annual service shall be expired, or refuse to act in the offices the death, or refor which they shall respectively be chofen, then our royal will and pleasure further is, and we do hereby direct, ordain, and require the freeholders of the faid township to meet at the place where the inte annual election shall be held for the faid township, and chufe other, by new elections or others of the faid inhabitants of the faid township in the place days after they and stead of him, or them, fo dying, removing, or refufing to act, within forty days next after fuch contingency.

fhall be filled up

within forty

have happened.

ceeding in the

elections.

And to prevent any undue election in this cafe, we do hereby Method of proordain and require, that upon every vacancy in the office of fuper- occafional visor, the affeffors, and in either of the other offices, the fupervifor of the faid township, shall, within ten days next after any fuch vacancy first happens, appoint the day for fuch election, and give public notice thereof in writing under his, or their hands, by affixing fuch notice on the church door, or other most public place, in the faid township, at the leaft ten days before the day appointed for fuch election and in default thereof, we do hereby require the officer, or officers, of the faid township, or the furvivor of them, who, in the order they are herein before-mentioned, shall next fucceed him, or them, fo making default, within ten days next after fuch default, to appoint the day for fuch election, and give notice thereof as aforefaid; hereby giving and granting, that fuch perfon or perfons as shall be so chofen by the majority of fuch of the freeholders of the faid township as shall meet in manner hereby directed, shall have, hold, exercise, and enjoy, the office, or offices, to which he, or they, shall be fo elected and chofen, from the time of fuch election, until the first Tuesday in May then next following, and until other, or others, be legally chofen in his, or their place and

stead,

Condition that

the grantees

years fettle at

for every thou

Condition that

the space of three

at leaft three

mifes.

ftead, as fully as the perfon, or perfons, in whofe place he, or they, fhall be chofen, might, or could, have done by virtue of thefe prefents. And we do hereby will and direct that this method shall for ever hereafter be used for the filling up all vacancies that shall happen in any or either of the faid offices between the annual elections above directed.

Provided always, and upon condition nevertheless, that, if our fhall within the faid grantees, their heirs, or affigns, or fome, or one, of them, fpace of three fhall not, within three years next after the date of this our preleaft one family fent grant, fettle on the faid tract of land hereby granted fo many fand acres upon families as fhall amount to one family for every thousand * acres the premifest of the fame tract; or, if they our faid grantees, or one of them, they fhall within their, or one of their, heirs, or affigns, fhall not alfo, within three years cultivate years to be computed as aforefaid, plant and effectually cultivate at acres for every the leaft three acres for every fifty acres of fuch of the hereby fifty of the pre-granted lands as are capable of cultivation; or if they our faid Condition, not grantees, or any of them, their, or any of their, heirs, or affigns, pine trees re- or any other perfon, or perfons, by their, or any of their, privity, ferved in this confent, or procurement, fhall fell, cut down, or otherwise destroy any of the pine trees by these presents referved to us, our heirs and fucceffors, or hereby intended fo to be, without the royal licence of us, our heirs or fucceffors for fo doing first had and obtained, that then, and in any of these cafes, this our prefent grant and every thing therein contained fhall ceafe and be abfolutely void, and the lands and premises hereby granted thall revert to, and veft in, us, our heirs and fucceffors, as if this our prefent grant had not been made; any thing herein before contained to the contrary in anywife notwithstanding +.

to destroy the

grant to the crown, without the king's leave.

Provided

*The claufe requiring one family to be fettled on every thousand acres, stands on an order of the governour and council.

The following claufe was here inferted in the original draft; but was ftruck out by the council as improper, it being confidered as a conftruction or explanation of the king's inftructions, which they thought fhould be left to the conftruction. of law.

+ Declaring nevertheless that neither this refervation or exception herein contained of all white pine-trees and of all other forts and fpecies of pine-trees whatfoever fit for mafts,

of

This grant fhall be registered

office, and a

auditor's office,

Provided further, and upon condition alfo nevertheless, and we heredin do hereby, for us, our heirs and fucceffors, direct and appoint that the fecretary's this our prefent grant fhall be registered and entered on record docket thereof within fix months from the date thereof in our fecretary's office in entered in the our city of New York, in our faid province, in one of the books of patents there remaining, and that a docket thereof fhall be alfo entered in our auditor's office there for our faid province; and that in default thereof this our prefent grant shall be void and of none effect; any thing before in these prefents contained to the contrary thereof in any-wife notwithstanding.

giftered and en

fhall be good

notwithstand

And we do moreover, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, When duly reand meer motion, confent and agree, that this our prefent grant, tered, this grant being registered, recorded, and a docket thereof made, as before and valid in law directed and appointed, fhall be good and effectual in the law to all against the king, intents, conftructions, and purposes whatsoever, against us, our ing any mistakes or imperfections heirs and fucceffors, notwithstanding any mif-reciting, mif-bound-in it. ing, mif-naming, or other imperfection or omiffion, of, in, or in any-wife concerning, the above granted, or hereby mentioned, or intended to be granted, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and premises, or any part thereof.

In teftimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent, and the great feal of our faid province to be hereunto affixed.

of the diameter of twenty-four inches and upwards at twelve inches from the ground, for mafts for the royal navy of us, our heirs and fucceffors, nor the restriction, or provifo, afore-mentioned to prevent the felling, cutting down, or otherwise destroying the same, nor any other refervation, exception, matter, or thing herein before contained, fhall extend, or be construed to extend, to prohibit, or in any-wife hinder, the said A, B, C, D, &c. or either of them, their, or either of their, heirs, or affigns, from fuch felling, or cutting down, of any of the faid trees on the hereby granted lands, as fhall be necessary and conducive to the clearing and effectually cultivating the fame or any part thereof, or to or for their, or any of their, own neceffary ufe or uses, on the fame lands; but to prevent their, or any, or either, of their, cutting down, felling, or otherwise destroying, any of the faid pine-trees on any part of the hereby granted lands, when not clearing to be cultivated and neceffary for the cultivation thereof; and to preferve all fuch trees on every part of the fame lands, when out of cultivation, for the use of us, our heirs and fucceffors, as aforefaid.

Witness our faid trufty and well-beloved Sir Henry Moore, baronet, our faid captain-general and governour in chief in and over our faid province of New York and the territories depending thereon in America, chancellor and vice-admiral of the fame, at our fort in our city of New York the twentieth Day of July in the year of our Lord one thoufand, seven hundred, and fixty-nine, and of our reign the ninth.

CLARKE,

H. MOOR E.

NUMBER

IN

NUMBER XXXII.

the foregoing paper, Number II. intitled, The opinion of the attorney-general of the province of Quebec concerning the report of the governour of the faid province on the state of the laws and adminiftration of justice in the fame, Page 53, it is recommended as a practicable and useful measure to make a code of all the laws that his Majefty fhall think fit to be obferved in the faid province, to the exclusion of all other laws, whether French or English, that are not contained in the faid code. As a proof of the practicability of this measure, and as a fpecimen of fuch a code with refpect to one head of law, which had been the subject of several regulations in the time of the French government, I fhall here infert the draught of an ordinance for repairing and amending the public highways and bridges in the province of Quebec, which was prepared by the said attorney-general, by the order of the governour and council of the faid province in the year 1769, but has not yet been paffed. It is a collection of the most useful provifions contained in several French ordinances that had been paffed at different times upon the fubject, with fome additions to them, and very particular directions about the manner of recovering the pecuniary penalties appointed for neglects and breaches of it, in order to render the execution of it eafy and certain; which directions are in a great measure the causes of it's length.