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REPORT FOR 1927
STATISTICS (CIRCULATION)

259
62, 130, 198, 250, 382, 434, 502,
570, 638, 706, 774, 858

NEWS OF THE MONTH. SEE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - NEWS OF THE
MONTH.

NEWSPAPER Volumes, Recent Gifts to the Library

25

ONE HUNDRED NOTABLE AMERICAN ENGRAVERS, 1683-1850. LIST OF PRINTS ON
EXHIBITION IN THE PRINT GALLERY

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HE Purchases are to be made from the Indian Sachines and to be Recorded before the Gover MUMY •

The Purchasers are not to pay for their liberty of purchafing to the Governor.

The Purchasers are to let out a Town, and Inhabit together.

No Purchaser fhall at any time contract for himself with any Sachim, without confent of bis flociates: or special Warrant from the Governer?

The Purchasers are free from all manner of Affeffaments or Races for five years after their Town-plot is fet out, and when the five years are expired, they thall only be liable to th publick Kates, and Payments according to the forty of Beheer Imbibitants Both Englife and Durch's

All Lands thus Purcha fed, and poffeft fhall remain to the Purchafers, and their Heires, as free Lands to difpofe of as they please.

In all Territories of his ROYAL HIGHNES, Liberty of Confcience allowed, Provided fuch Liberty is not converted to Licentiousness, or the disturbance of others in the exercise of the Proteftant Religion.

The feveral Townships have liberty to make their peculiar Laws, and Deciding all (mall Caufes within themselves.

The Lands which I intend shall be firk Planted, are thofe upon the Well side of Hudfon-River, at, or adjoyning to the Sopes, but if any number of men (ufficient for two or three, or more Towns, fhall defire to plant upon any other Lands they fhall have all due encouragement proportionable to their Quality, and undertakings.

Every Township is Obliged to pay their Minifter, according to fuch agreement as they shall make with him, and no man to refufe his Proportion, the Minifter being elected by the Major part of the Householders Inhabitants of the Iowa

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Every Township bath the free choice of all their officers both Civil, and Military, and men who shall take the Oath of Allegiance to bis Majesty, and are not Servants, or Ay-labentes, but are admitted to enjoy Tow-lasts are excemeid freemen of the Jurifdiction, ad cannot forfeit the same without due process in Law.

R. Nicolls.

FIRST OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF NEW YORK

BULLETIN OF

The New York Public Library

Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

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HE first official printing for the colony of New York was in May,

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1665, when Governor Richard Nicolls "made a journey through the Woods to Boston, and returne back in a moneths tyme." While there, he had a broadside sheet printed at Cambridge by Samuel Green, with the title heading: "The || Conditions for New Planters || In the Territories of His Royal Highnes || the || Duke of York." The object of this publication was to induce people in New England to come into the colony of New York, and build a town on the west side of Hudson's river in Ulster county, near the Esopus creek. Writing to the Earl of Clarendon, on July 30, 1665, he says, "when I was last at Boston, I did engage a hundred famillyes to remoove, and dispersed printed papers for their Encouragement." A single copy of this broadside has survived, among the Winthrop papers presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Robert C. Winthrop, in March, 1864, and is reproduced here in facsimile, through the courtesy of Mr. Julius H. Tuttle, the librarian.

Another official work which Governor Nicolls desired to have printed was the code of laws for the colony, compiled "out of those of Boston, Newhaven, Mary Land or Virginia," and first published by proclamation at Hempstead on Long Island, in March, 1665, generally known as the Duke of York's Laws. In his letter to the Earl of Clarendon, he mentioned his intention of having them reviewed and amended at the General Assizes to be held in September, and then forwarded to his Royal Highness for authen

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