[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] treasurer. The court of sessions was thus relieved of that portion of its duties which was legislative and not judicial. Supervisors had been chosen in several of the towns before the passage of the act of 1703 (Eastchester, 1681!; Mamaroneck, 1697; New Rochelle, 1700); but what their duties were it is impossible to state.1 During the ton years following The arrival of the first royal gov-ernor under King William, and the definite erection of representative government in the province, there was a steady expansion of popula-tion, wealth, and enterprise. Sloughter died only two months after Leisler's execution, and was succeeded as governor the next year by Benjamin Fletcher, who was superseded in 1G98 by the Earl of Bello-niont. one of the best and most conscientious of New York's early colonial rulers. Philipse and Van Cortlandt, who had been sent into retirement by Leisler, were recalled to the council by Sloughter, and both of them thus resumed their old-time prominence. It has already been recorded how Philipse, on account of the notoriety at-taching to his connection with unlawful traffic, was finally forced to resign from the council. This traffic, while vexatious to the gov-ernment officials and increasingly demoralizing, was far from being-regarded with general disapprobation by the commercial commu-nity of New York.