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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 153 (part 3)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Greene; Assessors, Caleb Smith, William < >rser, Ste-phen Marshall; Commissioners of Highways, Kdward.1. Bayles, David C. Coddington, John Ryder; Over-seers of the Poor, Willet Holmes, William Mangain; Collector, Abraham Miller. The Charter and Officers of thk Village of SlNG Sing. — The act incorporating the village of Sing Sing was passed April "2, 1813. It provided that on the first Tuesday of May, following, the freeholders and inhabitants who were qualified to vote should " meet at some place to be appointed by any justice or justices of the peace, within the said village, who should notify the inhabitants thereof, at least one week previous to the said first Tuesday of May. and then and there proceed to elect seven disc reel free-holders, residents within the said village, to be trus-tees thereof." The trustees were to serve for one year. The limits of the corporation were fixed, sub-stantially, as they are at the present time.