demise, assign or otherwise dispose of all or any messuages, lands, tenements, rents and other hereditaments and real estate, and all goods chattels money and other things whatsoever as to them shall seem fit either in the payment of the salary or salaries of the president, fellows and professors of the said College or any other officers or ministers of the same at their will and pleasure (except as therein is excepted) and whereas some doubts have arose whether the said corporation have by reason of the above in part recited clause of the said charter, power in any manner to dispose of any their messuages, lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments or real estate not comprised within the said exception unless in the payment of the salary or salaries aforesaid. Now for preventing all doubts or disputes concerning the same for the future, we do by these presents for us, our heirs, and successors of our especial grace certain knowledge and mere motion ordain and declare and give and grant to the Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the city of New York in America and their successors for ever that it shall and may be lawfull for them and their successors for ever by the same name, to give, grant, bargain, sell, demise, assign or otherwise dispose of the lands, tenements and hereditaments by these presents granted, and all other the messuages, lands, tenements, rents, and other hereditaments and real estate which they now or hereafter may have or hold (not comprised within the said exception) either in fee simple, for life or lives or for years, or in any other manner whatsoever which they shall think most conducive to the benefit of the said College, any thing in the said charter above mentioned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And whereas the said

exception in the said charter above mentioned respects certain lands in the said charter more particularly described, situate on the west side of the broad way in the West ward of the City of New York which at the time of granting the said charter were set apart and have been since conveyed by the rector and inhabitants of the City of New York in communion of the Church of England as by law established to the Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the city of New York in America in fee to and for the use of the said College and it is thereby ordained that no grant

or lease of the said land or any part thereof shall be made by the said governors of the said college which shall exceed the number of twenty-one years and that either in possession, or not above three years before the end and expiration or determination of the estate or estates in possession as by the same charter recourse being thereunto had, may more fully appear. And whereas the Governors of the College of the Province of New York of the city of New York in America by their farther humble petition presented unto our said lieutenant governor and commander in chief of our said Province and read in our said Council for our said Province on the fourteenth day of February now last past did represent that they found the said restriction last mentioned to be prejudicial to the interest of the said college, as from the steepness of the banks of the necessity of wharfs and other impediments, that part of the said land (contained within the said exception) which fronts the North river cannot be improved but at a very great expense and therefore humbly prayed our said Lieutenant governor and commander in chief would be favorably pleased by our letters patent to enable the petitioners to grant and demise that part of the said lands which fronts the said North river to the extent of two hundred feet from the same, for any term not exceeding ninety nine years. . Know ye further therefore that of our especial grace certain knowledge and mere motion, we have given and granted and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors do give and grant to the Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the city of New York in America and their successors for ever full power and authority and that it shall and may be lawful for them and their successors for ever to grant and demise for and during any term not exceeding ninety nine years, ALL THAT part and parcel of the said lands (conveyed as aforesaid by the rector and inhabitants of the city of New York in communion of the Church of England, as by law established to the said governors of the college of the Province of New York in the city of New York in America) from the whole front thereof on the said North river as far back as the depth of two hundred feet from the said river, anything in the said charter contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. AND WE do moreover of our especial grace

and certain knowledge and mere motion, consent and agree, that this our present grant being registered, recorded and a doquet thereof made as before directed and appointed shall be good and effectual in the law to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever against us, our heirs and successors notwithstanding any misreciting, misbounding, misnaming or other imperfections or omission of in or in any wise concerning the above granted or hereby mentioned or intended to be granted lands, tenements, hereditaments, powers, privileges, authorities and premises or any part thereof.

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. Witness our said trusty and well beloved Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, our said lieutenant governor and commander in chief of our said Province of New York and the territories depending thereon in America at our Fort in our city of New York by and with the advice and consent of our said Council for our said Province the fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy and of our reign the tenth.

[GREAT SEAL OF THE PROVINCE.]

CLARKE.

First Skin Line the fortieth the letter a is interlined; and Second Skin Line the forty-third part of the word be wrote in

erasure.

(Endorsed):

New York Secretary's Office 22 March 1770 The within Letters Patent are recorded in this Office in Lib. Patents No 15 page 72 &c

GEO. BANYAR

D. Sec'y

New York Auditor General's Office 23 March 1770. The within Letters Patent are Docqueted in this Office

GEO. BANYAR

Dep. Audr.

LEASE OF LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP OF NORBURY.

This Indenture, made the Sixth Day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Seventy four BETWEEN His Excellency William Tryon Esquire Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of New York in America of the one Part and the Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America of the other Part Witnesseth That His said Excellency William Tryon for and in Consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of lawful money of the Province of New York to him in Hand paid by the said Parties of the second Part the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged HATH granted bargained and sold and by these Presents DOTH grant bargain and sell unto the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America All that certain Tract or Parcel of Land Situate lying and being in the County of Gloucester in the Province of New York being the Northwesterly Part of a certain Tract of Land containing Thirty Thousand Acres and the usual Allowance for Highways granted unto Samuel Chandler and others by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Province of New York bearing Date the Fourteenth Day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Seventy two and erected into a Township by the Name of NORBURY, The same Tract or Parcel of Land by these Presents intended to be granted BEGINNING at the most Westerly Corner of the said Township of Norbury Thence running along the Southwesterly Bounds of the said Township South Sixty Degrees East Two hundred and Twenty Chains; Thence North Thirty Degrees East to the Northeasterly Bounds of the said Township Thence along the last mentioned Bounds North Sixty Degrees West to the most Northerly Corner of the said Township; Thence along Northwesterly Bounds of the said Township, to the Place of beginning above mentioned Containing Ten thousand Acres of Land and the usual Allowance for Highways, TOGETHER with all and Singular the Emoluments Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the same and every Part and Parcel thereof belonging or in anywise appertaining AND the Reversion and

Reversions, Remainder and Remainders Rents Issues and Profits thereof and of every Part and Parcel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances to have and to hold all and Singular the said Tract of Ten thousand Acres of Land and the usual Allowance for Highways and other the Premises hereby bargained and sold and every Part and Parcel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America and their Successors and Assigns from the Day next before the Day of the Date of these Presents for and during and unto the full End and Term of one whole Year from thence next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended YIELDING AND PAYING therefore at the Expiration of the said Year one Pepper Corn if the same shall be lawfully demanded To the Intent and Purpose that by Virtue of these Presents and of the Statute for Transferring Uses into Possession they the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America may be in the actual Possession of all and Singular the Premises hereby bargained and sold with the Appurtenances and thereby be enabled to accept and take a Grant and Release of the Reversion and Inheritance thereof to them and their Successors To the only proper Use and Behoof of them the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America their Successors and Assigns for ever to for and upon such Intents and Purposes as shall be thereof declared.

In witness whereof his said Excellency has to one Part of these Indentures set his Hand and Seal and to the other Part thereof the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America have caused their Common Seal to be affixed the Day and Year first above written.

(Endorsed.)

WM. (Seal) TRYON.

SEALED and Delivered in the Presence of (Line four and Ten Razures filled up and Line Sixteen the word Successors wrote on Razure.)

PETER OGILVIE,

WM. BANYAR.