New York and their Successors fforever that they and their Successors all and singular the rights priviledges ffranchises preheminences Advantages Authorities Jurisdictions Liberties Offices Courts powers Immunities fferryes fferriages proffits and perquisites herein before mentioned or Intended to be hereby granted or Confirmed Shall and may forever hereafter have hold enjoy and use without the Hindrance or Impediment of us our Heirs or Successors or of any of the Justices Sheriffs Escheators Coroners Bailiffs or other Officers or Ministers whatsoever of us our Heirs or Successors albeit the Same or Some or any one of them have not been used or may have been abused misused or Discontinued fforfeited or Lost Being unwilling and hereby fforbidding that the Said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty or their Successors or any of them by reason of the premises aforesaid or any part thereof by us or our Heirs or by the Justices Sheriffs Escheators Bailiffs or other Officers or Ministers of us our Heirs or Successors be hindred molested vexed or aggrieved or in any wise Disturbed Being willing and by these presents for ourselves our Heirs and Successors Commanding as well all the Judges and Justices of us our Heirs and Successors as the Attorney and Sollicitor General of us our Heirs and Successors for the Said province for the time being and also all other Officers and Ministers whatsoever of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being that neither they nor any of them do prosecute or Continue or cause to be prosecuted or continued any Information or any Writ or Summons of Quo Warranto or any other Writt or Writts prosecution Suit or processes whatsoever against the aforesaid Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of New York or their Successors for the time being or against any of them for any Causes things Offences Claims Usurpations or Omissions or any of them by them the Said Mayor Aldermen and Comonalty or any of them or by their predecessors or any of them or by any other Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York or any of them Done Attempted claimed used had usurped or Committed or Omitted at any time before the making of these Letters And we being willing also that the Said now Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York and their Successors Shall not nor Shall any or either of them be Molested or Impeached by or before any Judge or Judges Justice or Justices Sheriffs Officers or other Ministers aforesaid in or for any Use Claim Abuse Usurpation of any the aforesaid or of any other Liberties ffranchises or Jurisdictions within the City aforesaid and the Liberties and precincts thereof before the day of the making of these Letters had used Claimed abused or Usurped nor to or for them or any of them or for any other thing whatsoever Shall be Compelled to answer And Also of our more Abundant Especial grace certain knowledge and meer motion we have given pardoned Remitted Released and quit claimed and by these presents Do for ourselves our Heirs and Successors give pardon Remitt Release and quit claim to the aforesaid Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York aforesaid and to their Successors fforever by whatsoever Name the Same Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty may be called Named or Stiled or lately heretofore were called Stiled named or titled all and all manner of actions whatsoever Informations and Suits of Quo Warranto and other Informations Suits and prosecutions and also all and Singular Usuages Non usuages abuses fforfeitures Usurpations Intrusions Omissions and also all unjust Claims of any rights priviledges Liberties ffranchises Jurisdictions courts powers Offices ffees ffines Amerciaments fferrys fferriages perquisites Rents possessions Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever by the aforesaid Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City aforesaid or by any of their predecessors or by any other Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City New York by whatsoever Name or Names or Incorporation or by pretext of any incorporation before the day of the making of these presents perpetrated made or Claimed And also all and all manner of ffines Amerciaments penaltys Sums of money and other fforfeitures whatsoever by reason of Such Usurpation Intrusion Usuage Non usuage Omission Abuse or unjust Claim and that they the Said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York and their Successors and every of them be and Shall be and hereby are thereof fully acquitted and Discharged towards us our Heirs and Successors forever being unwilling that they or any of them Should by reason of the premises aforesaid or any part thereof by us our Heirs or Successors or by any of our Justices Sheriffs Ministers or Officers whatsoever be troubled molested or in any wise vexed And further we do of our Especial grace certain knowledge and meer Motion Will Declare and Signify and by these presents for us our Heirs and Successors Do grant unto and Covenant with the Said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York and their Successors not only that they and their Successors forever hereafter may and Shall have hold use possess and Enjoy all the rights priviledges Liberties ffranchises Jurisdictions Courts powers Offices Authorities Markets fferrys ffees ffines Amerciaments perquisites proffits Immunities and also all the Rents possessions Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the premises in these presents mentioned and intended to be hereby granted or confirmed but also that these our Letters being Entred upon Record as is herein after appointed and the Record or Inrollment thereof and either of them and all and every thing therein contained from time to time and at all times hereafter be and Shall be ffirm valid good Sufficient and Effectual in Law towards and against us our Heirs and Successors according to the true Intention thereof and in and through all things Shall be Construed taken and expounded most benignly and in favour and for the most and greatest Advantage proffit and Benefit of the Said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York and their Successors as well in all Courts as elsewhere without any Confirmation Lycenses Tolerations procured or to be procured of us our Heirs or Successors Notwithstanding that any writt or writs of Ad quod Damnum hath or have not issued or is or are not returned before the making of these presents and notwithstanding the not reciting mis reciting or not rightly or certainly reciting or ill or wrong reciting the Said rights priviledges Liberties ffranchises Jurisdictions Courts powers Offices Authorities Markets fferrys ffees Amerciaments perquisites proffits Immunities Rents Possessions Lands Tenements Hereditaments and any other the premises in or by these presents granted or mentioned or Intended to be hereby granted or any part or parcell thereof and notwithstanding the not finding or ill or not right or certain finding of any Office or Offices Inqui sition or Inquisitions of the premises hereby granted or mentioned or Intended to be hereby granted or any part or parcell thereof by which our Title in and to the Said premises or any part thereof might Could Should or ought to have been found before the making of these presents and notwithstanding any Defect in not reciting or ill reciting of any Lease Grant or Grants of the premises or any part thereof being upon Record or not upon Record or otherwise howsoever and notwithstanding the ill naming misnaming or not right or certain naming any place or precinct wherein the premises or any part thereof are or is and notwithstanding any Defect in not mentioning or not fully rightly or certainly mentioning the Name or Names of all or any the Rights priviledges Liberties ffranchises Jurisdictions Courts Powers Offices Authorities Markets fferrys ffees Amerciaments perquisites proffits Immunities Rents possessions Lands Tenements Hereditaments or other the premises hereby granted or Intended to be granted or any part or parcell thereof or of the Yearly or other Rent of or Reserved in and upon the premises or any part thereof and notwithstanding any Defect for the want of a Computation or Declaration or for the Omission of the true Vallue of the premises in these presents mentioned or Intended to be hereby granted or any part thereof and notwithstanding any defect in not mentioning our true right Estate or Title of or to the Same premises or any part or parcell of them and notwithstanding the not mentioning or not fully rightly or certainly mentioning the natures kinds Species or Quantities of the premises or any of them or any part or parcell of them and notwithstanding any Act Statute or Ordinance of Parliament or any Act of Assembly and notwithstanding any other Defects Defaults or Imperfections or any other Cause or thing whatsoever And further that if any ffault Mistake or Imperfection in time to come Shall be found in these presents or any Doubt Scruple or Question be or Shall be made or Shall happen to arise concerning the premises or any part thereof that we our Heirs and Successors Shall and will vouchsafe to make any other Grant or Assurance under the great Seal of us our Heirs or Successors of the Said province of New York to the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York for the time being and their Successors at their own proper Charges for the better giving granting and confirming and for their Safe and better Enjoying the premises aforesaid and every part thereof when it Shall be desired by the Same Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York or their Successors Also We Will and by these presents grant unto the Said Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty that they Shall and may have these presents made and Sealed under the great Seal of our Said province of New York Without Rendring paying or making any ffine or ffee great or little to us or to our Use for the Same although no express Mention is made of the true Yearly or other vallue or of the Certainty of the premises or any part thereof or of the gifts or grants heretofore by us or our Ancestors or by any Governour Lievtenant Governor or Commander in Chief of the Said province of New York to the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the Said City of New York or to the Citizens or Inhabitants of New York aforesaid by that or any other Name Stile or title or any other Statute Act Ordinance Proclamation provision or Restriction made published Ordained or provided to the contrary or any other Cause or matter whatsoever in any wise notwithstanding In Testimony whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made patent and the great Seal of our Said province to be hereunto affixed and the Same to be Entred of Record in our Secretarys Office of our Said Province in one of the books of patents there remaining Wittness Our Trusty and Wellbeloved John Montgomerie Esq our Captain General and Governour in Chief of our Said Province of New York and the province of New Jersey and territories depending thereon in America and Vice Admirall of the Same at our ffort George In New York the ffifteenth day of January in the ffourth Year of our Reign. Memorandum. That before the Sealing of this grant or Charter, consisting of thirty ffive Sheets of parchment, the Several Interlineations were made and Inserted therein of the several words as ffollows, vizt In the ffifth Sheet above the first Line (of the Said City) above the fifth line (Said) in the Seventh Sheet, above the ninth Line (there) in the Eleventh Sheet, above the Ninth Line, (and the Same to be recorded in ye Secretarys Office of our Said province) in the twelfth Sheet, above the ninth Line, (ffranchises) In the Seventeenth Sheet, above the ffourteenth Line, (other) in the Twenty third Sheet above the Sixth Line, (forever) and in the twenty ninth Sheet, above the twenty ffourth Line (to which Same Mayor for the time being or his Deputy) in the fourteenth Sheet, above the third line, (or So far as the Limitts of our Said province extend there) above the ffourth line, (or along the Limitts of our Said Province) and in the Twenty eighth Sheet, above the Thirteenth Line (on his or their being thereof legally convicted) Examined By me ffredk. Morris To his Excellency the Gouvernour of the Province of New York &c. May it please your Excellency &c I have perused this Charter and find nothing therein Prejudiciall to the Interest of his Majesty. R. BRADLEY, D. Secry New York Secretay'es Office, ffebruary the 4th 1730. I hereby certifye that I carefully examined this Charter with the record thereof, and that the same is recorded in a certain book remaining in the Secretaryes office for the province aforesaid, titled Commissions past under the great Seal of the Province. Begun Anno Domini 1702. from page 301 to page 352. both ffirst and last of these pages being included. And I Do hereby certify that the Severall interlineations and mistakes made in the recording of the Said Charter, are as follows vizt in page 302, line the last, Save one, between the words (the Mayor) the word (now) interlined, In page 313, from the word (Dongan) in the ffourteenth line to the end of the twenty first line blotted out by drawing lines across the writing, In page 322. line the ffirst, between the words (ffoot low) the word (below) interlined after another word which had been in the room thereof being blotted out, In page 323. line the twenty Sixth between the words (time and) the word (being) interlined, In page 324 line the twenty first, between the words (Rosevelt Esqrs) the words (and Johannes Hardenbrook) interlined and in the last line of same page first word that line blotted out, In page 325 line the twenty ffourth between the words (assessors Constables) a . word blotted out, and in the next line, between the words (Assessor and) another word blotted out. In page 326, line ffifteenth, between the words (the ensuing) a word blotted out and the word (year) interlined and to come in after the said word (ensuing) In the 27th line of same page, between the words (Assessor or) a word blotted out, In page 328, line the Second the words (person to be) interlined and to come in after the word (fitt) in the Same line. In page 329 and last line, Save five, between the words (Laws rights) a word blotted out, and the word (Statutes) interlined and to come in at the end of the Same line, In page 330 line the 4th the word (or) interlined and to come in after the word (heirs) in the Same line, In page 340 line the last Save Seven the word (Six) interlined and to come in after the word (of) in the Same line and also after the Said word (Six) is to come in the following clause which is inserted in the margin vizt (provided that nothing herein Shall be construed to extend to hinder us our heirs or Successors from prosecuting or defending all or any suites causes actions or prosecutions in the Said Mayors Court by our Attorney or Sollicitor Generall for our Said province or the Attorney or Sollicitor Generall of us our heirs or successors for the Said province for the time being nor to hinder the Attorney or Sollicitor Generall of us our heirs or successors for the Said province for the time being to practice in the Said Court as Councill in any Civill cause) In page 345 line the 10th the words (or hereafter to be erected or established) interlined and to come in after the word (Established) in the same line, In page 346 line the 7th the word (of) interlined and to come in after the word (any) in the same line And in same page line the 8th the word (Tenements) interlined in the room of another word before blotted out and to come in after the word (or) in the beginning of the same line and in page 348 the last word Save one of the tenth line blotted out Examined By me ffred Morris D. 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