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SANDERS LANSING, Register.
(File No. 341.)
[1814, May 3.]
Resolved that the following persons who have taken licenses to keep Inns or Taverns this 3 day of May 1814 are of good moral character & of sufficient abilities to keep Inns or Taverns for the accommodations of travelers, Viz: Jesse Platt, Ebenezer Gould, Thomas Gould, Epenetus Smith, Isaac Conkling, Hawley Beers, Thomas Seaman, Asa Chichester, Abel Brush, John B. Scudder, Ichabod Bedell, Jeffery A. Woodhull, Jacob Conkling, Daniel Jarvis, David Conkling, Gilbert Carll.
SAMUEL FLEET, DIVINE HEWLETT, CHARLES COLYER, WILLIAM WICKES, MOSES ROLPH, Commrs.
Huntington Suffolk County the Third day of May A. D. 1814.
(File No. 340.)
[SPECIAL TOWN MEETING. POWDER AND SHOT PURCHASED FOR WAR.]
[Abstract.] [1814, Nov. 5.]
A Special Town Meeting held in the Town on the 5th Day of November 1814.
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"It was voted that the Sum of two hundred and Seven Dollars & 86 be paid by the Town being the amount of two bills paid for 6 Casks of powder 4001b of Musket Balls and a Quantity of buck Shot by the Trustees of Sa Town for the Militia to Defend the S' Town with in Case of Invasion."*
It was also voted to distribute the powder and balls as follows: "I Cask of the powder and the sixth of the balls & shot be Deposited with Capt Samuel Muncy at South.
AAlso Voted that I Cask of the powder and the sixth partt of the Balls and Shot be Deposited with Matthew Gardiner Crabmeadow or fresh pond. Also Voted that I Cask of the powder and the Sixth of the Ball and Shot be
[* War was declared by the United States against Great Britain June 18, 1812. The causes of complaint were her im- prisonment of American seaman, her restrictions upon com- merce and her instigating the Indians to revolt. This record of a town meeting here, which shows the purchase of powder and shot "to defend the Town with in case of invasion," is, I think, the only paper on file which alludes in any way to this war with Great Britain, and as this purchase of war material was made only about two months before the close of the con- flict, the treaty of peace being signed December 24, 1814, it is hardly probable that hostilities had much disturbed the people here. British ships, however, blockaded the entire coast of the United States ; many naval conflicts had taken place ; Ston- ington, Connecticut, was bombarded Aug. 10, 1814; Washing- ton City was taken by the British and the Capitol burned Aug. 25, of the same year, and the Battle of New Orleans was fought January 8, 1815, several days after the treaty of peace had been signed. The booming of cannons on the New Eng- land shore probably reminded our forefathers, many of whom had survived the Revolutionary War, that it was time to arm and get ready to fight with the old enemy. We know that many in Huntington were enlisted in the service, some going to Sag Harbor and others to Brooklyn, and it is probable that more or less were in the navy and saw actual service. It is also said that on a false alarm a company was raised here, who marched to Lloyd's Neck but found no enemy. The people here evidently intended to give the "red coats" a warm re- ception .- C. R. S.]
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Deposited with Epenetus Smith Cow Harbour. Also Voted that 13 Casks of the powder and the Equal propor- tion of the Ball and Shot be Deposited with Capt Abel Conkling. Also Voted that 14 Cask of the powder and the Equal proportion of the Ball and Shot be Deposited with Capt John Rogers.
Recorded by me Moses Rolph, Town Clerk of the Sd Town of Huntington.
(Town Meetings, Vol. II, p. 327.)
[1815,-20.]
An Account of Money Received by the Trustees of the Town of Huntington for pine timber sold belonging to sd. Town-1815.
September By Cash Received of Platt Soper $23.05 ; Do Elkanah Bunce 119.84; Do Samuel Blachly 77 ; Do Morris Burr 25 : Do Platt Wickes 77.35 ; Do John Carll by Samll Carll 66; Do Eneas Smith Note by his Adms. 28.80 ; Do Samuel Carll 8 ; of Joshua Robens 10 ; of Enos Smith by J. B. Scudder 28.373 ; of Ebenezer Gould 26.64 ; of Enos Smith 35.94 ; Do of Israel Sammis for pine timber sold Stephen Brown 28.50; Do David Oakes per pine tim- ber 8.00 ; 1820, Do Platt Arther (by Zopher Sammis) 18.92 ; Do sums paid to the overseers of the poor 289.52; Total 867.45号
(File No. 299.)
[LETTER OF WILLIAM SMITH CONCERNING THE NICOLL PATENT.]
[No date.]
The pattent from Gov. Benjamin Fletcher to Wm Smith
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Dated Ninth October 1693 Extends Westward on the beach and bay to a Gut or inlet to the bay Commonly called Huntington Gut to a stake on the beach Eastward to a place called Capswague being the Town of South- hamptons Westermost bounds the said beach and bay being from the east to the west bounds twenty four miles and seven Chains as by the returne of the Surveyer General May more fully Appear, (from the West bounds or Hun- tington Gut to Long Cove is 10 Miles three Quarters & 40 rod) I have in my hands a Coppy of record from the Secre- tarys Office of a Grant to Wm Nicoll Dated the forth of June 1688 for all those Islands and small Isls of Sandy Land and Marsh or Meadow Ground With the Appurtenances sit- uate lying and beeing on the South side of Long Island between the inlet or Gut Commonly Called Huntington Gut and the land of Wm Nicoll Taken from a Coppy in my hands.
WVM. SMITH.
This done at the request of Mr Carle Ketcham for the Gentlemen of Huntington. Lib .. No. 6, page 333 .*
(File No. 307.)
[LETTER OF NATHAN SANFORD.]
[1816, March 4.]
ALBANY 4th March 1816. Saturday Evening.
DEAR SIR-Mr. Scudder has just now shown to me a Petition which he has this day received from the People of Islip praying for a grant of the Islands. After consider- able conversation Mr. Scudder has consented at my re-
L* This paper shows how, in the suit of this Town with Wm. Nicoll, it became important to locate "Huntington Gut."-C. R. S.]
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quest to hold the Petition in his hands until I can write to you, and you can give some answer. The Petition is well drawn and is signed by a great many of the People of Islip. It will be necessary for you to attend to the sub- ject immediately Mr Scudder wishes you to see the Peo- ple of Islip and consult with them; and he particularly desires that you will see Nathaniel Conklin Esquire It will be proper to give some answer as soon as possible, as Mr. Scudder may perhaps not think himself justified in with- holding the Petition from the Legislature for any consid- erable time If you cannot make some arrangement with Islip by which they will withdraw their Petition for the present session, it will I conceive be proper and prudent, that you or some other of the Trustees should repair to Albany immediately. It is entirely uncertain how long I shall remain here.
With respects and esteem I am Obediently NATHAN SANFORD. PHINEAS CARLL Esquire.
Dicks hills, Huntington, Long Island .* (File No. 343.)
[1816, Dec. II.]
SUFFOLK COUNTY &SS :
Zophar Ketcham being duly sworn deposeth and saith
[* Mr. Nicoll having failed to sustain a title to the beaches and islands in the South Bay in the suit with Huntington, the people of the Town of Islip sought to acquire the premises by Legislative grant. Nathan Sanford, the most active attorney for Huntington in the suit which had just been decided, was therefore sent to Albany to oppose such grant being made. The two papers, which follow this, were used before a commit- tee of the Legislature in behalf of Huntington's protest against the grant asked for .- C. R. S.]
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that he is upwards of seventy years of age that he is as he believes the great grandson of Samuel Ketcham who pur- chased a certain Island of Marsh in the South Bay in the Town of Huntington of the Seaquetaug Indians by a deed bearing date the 13th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and eighty nine, called by the Indians sesecunhas and by the English Cedar Island.
That as long ago as he can remember his Grandfather Nathaniel Ketcham was in the use and possession of the said Island or a part of it and that some part of the said Island has continued in the family untill the present time.
And this deponent further saith that the said Cedar Isl- and is the next Island west of Oak Island and less than half a mile from it and that there is no other Island be- tween Oak Island and Massepeg Gut but Cedar Island and further this deponent saith not.
ZOPHAR KETCHAM.
Sworn this IIth day of Decmr A. D. 1816 Before me ABEL KETCHAM Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. (File No. 310.)
[1817, Jan. 7.]
SUFFOLK COUNTY &SS :
Henry Scudder being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is upwards of seventy three years of age and now resides in the Town of Smith Town that he was born in the Town of Huntington and resided there untill within a few years past, except during a part of the revolutionary war, that he was chosen a trustee of the said Town of Huntington soon after he was with age and was regularly chosen to the same office untill the american revolution when he removed into the american lines and has been a trustee several times since the revolution that as long ago
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as he can remember the Trustees of Huntington laid claim to the Islands lately in controvercy with William Nicoll and exercised acts of ownership over them by regulations respecting the cutting the grass that grew on them and restraining such as did not belong to the said Town from using them. That they were in the constant exercise of such acts during the whole time he was a member of the board of Trustees. That about fifty years ago an applica- tion was made to the then Governor of the Colony of New York for a grant of the Islands in oposition to the title of Huntington and that he the deponent was then a Trustee of said Town and was employed by the board to go to the Governor and council to resist the application on the ground the title to the said Islands was legally vested in said Trustees that he accordingly went and performed the said services whereupon the Governor and council refused to listen to the aforesaid application.
And this deponent further saith that a similar applica- tion was made to the legislature of this state soon after the revolution for some lands not included in the last Patent of Huntington and that the application was resisted on the same grounds as the preceeding with the same result, and further this deponent saith not.
HENRY SCUDDER.
Sworn this 7th day of January A. D. 1817
Before me WILLIAM WICKES. Justice of the Peace.
(File No. 308.)
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.] [1815, April 4.]
Election of Town Officers, held on the 4th day of April 1815, to serve for one year.
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
Town Clerk, Moses Rolph. Supervisor, Samuel Carll. President of Trustees, Timothy Conklin. Trustees, Alex- ander Lewis, Phineas Carll, Samuel Carll, Richard Conk- lin Jun', Solomon Ketcham, Elias Baylis. Assessors, Timothy Carll, Samuel Scidmore, Isreal Platt, William Wickes, Abel Ketcham. Collector, Elkanah Platt. Over- seers of the Poor, Thomas Roe, William Woodhull. Commissioners of Highways, Isreal Platt, Abel Ketcham, Thomas Ketcham. Constables, Jacob Smith, David Conkling, Elkanah Platt, Peter Wickes. Pound Master, Thomas Woodward. Commissioners of Common Schools, Samuel Fleet, Thomas Gould, Abel Ketcham. Inspectors of Common schools, William Woodhull, Daniel Jarvis, Thomas Ireland, Thomas Ketcham, John Rogers. Town Sealer, Abel Ketcham. Town Surveyors, John Oakley, Charles Colyar, Abel Ketcham. Overseers of Highways, Ezra Smith and forty seven others. Fence Viewers, Ezra Smith and thirty five others.
One thousand dollars voted to meet expenses Maintain- ance of the Poor and other charges, including the Common Schools of the Town.
"Voted that the Collector have Six Cents on twenty Shillings provided he have the State Tax to Collect if not Nine Cents on 20 Shillings."
Swine Act re-enacted.
Law relating to pasturing Stock on the Town Beach re-enacted.
Law in regard to title to seaweed re-enacted.
Recorded by Moses Rolph, Town Clerk.
(Town Meetings, Vol. II, pp. 328-36.)
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.]
[1816, April 2.]
Election of Officers held on the 2nd day of April 1816, to serve for one year.
Town Clerk, Moses Rolph. Supervisor, John Rogers. President of Trustees, Timothy Conkling. Trustees, Alexander Lewis, Phineas Carll, Samuel Carll, Richard Conkling Jun', Solomon Ketchanı, Elias Baylis. Over- seers of the Poor, Solomon Ketcham, Samuel Fleet. Assessors, Timothy Carll, William Wickes, Isreal Platt, Abel Ketcham, Samuel Scidmore. Commissioners of Highways, Isreal Platt, Abel Ketcham, Thomas Ketcham. Constables, Jacob Smith, Elkanah Platt, David Conklin,
Peter Wickes.
Pound Masters, Thomas Woodward,
Collector, Elkanah Platt. Town Thomas Ketcham. Commissioners of Common
Sealer, Abel Ketcham.
Schools, Abel Ketcham, Thomas Gould, Silas Wood. Inspectors of Common Schools, Scudder B. Smith, Wil- liam Wickes, Platt Conkling, Benjamin K. Hobart, Abel Ketcham, Conkling Ketcham. Overseers of Highways, Ezra Smith, and forty five others. Fence Viewers, Ezra Smith and twenty eight others.
One thousand dollars voted to meet expenses Maintain- ance of the Poor of the Town and other Charges, includ- ing Common Schools.
"Voted that a pound be built on the South Side of the Town of Huntington and set on the Neck Called Negun- tatague."
"An act to prevent the Destruction of Clams and oysters, in any Bays or Shores on the north side of the Town of Huntington."
I Be it enacted that any person or persons except in- habitants of said Town on being convicted of catching
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Clams or oysters in any of the Bays harbours or shores above mentioned shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of ten Dollars and a further sum of one Dollar for every bushel so taken or caught the one Moiety to the Complaint the other for the use of Sª Town.
Be it enacted that if any person or persons being Inhab- itants of sd Town of Huntington shall be Duly convicted of selling any clams or Oysters taken in any of the afore- said Bays harbours or shores to any foreigner or carrying them to any Market out of Sª Town for sale shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of ten Dollars and an additional sum of one Dollar per bushel for every bushel so sold or Disposed of and the informers name kept secret, one Moiety to the complainant the other to the use of Sª Town."
Swine Act re-enacted.
Law relating to title to seaweed re-enacted.
Law in relation to pasturing Stock on the Town Beaches re-enacted.
Recorded by Moses Rolph,
(Town Meetings, Vol. II, pp. 337-45.)
Town Clerk.
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.] [1817, April I.]
Election of Town Officers held first day of April 1817, to serve for one year.
Town Clerk, Moses Rolph. Supervisor, William Wickes. President of Trustees, Timothy Conkling. Trustees, Sam- uel Carll, Solomon Ketcham, Divine Hewlett, William Wickes, Samuel Scidmore, Thomas Ketcham. Assessors, Timothy Carll. William Wickes, Abel Ketcham, Samuel Scidmore, Richard Conkling. Collector, Elkanah Platt.
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Overseers of the Poor, Solomon Ketcham, Samuel Fleet. Commissioners of Highways, Abel Ketcham, Isreal Platt, Thomas Ketcham. Constables, Elkanah Platt, David Conkling, Jacob Smith, Edward Dodd. Inspectors of Common Schools, Benjamin K. Hobart, Jonathan Gilder- sleeve, Thomas Ketcham. Overseers of Highways, Au- gustin Jarvis and forty five others. Fence Viewers, Ezra Smith and twenty five others. Commissioners of Common Schools, Abel Ketcham, Platt Conkling, Thomas Gould.
"Voted at the Last annual Town Meeting in the Town of Huntington that no foreigner be permitted to Catch any Clams, fowls or fish in the Jurisdiction of Sa Town under the penalty of ten Dollars for every offence, one Moiety to the Complainant the other for the use of Sª Town. Voted that Platt Ketcham, Phineas Smith and Samuel Burch put the Law in effect on the South Side of the Island."
Swine act re-enacted.
"Also Voted that no horse or Neat Cattle be suffered to remain on the Beach belonging to the Town of Hunting- ton after the first day of June under the penalty of five Dollars to be Recovered in any Court having Cognizance thereof."
"Also Voted that no person gain any title or claim to seaweed by heaping it on the Shores the North side of the Sª Town of Huntington and that it shall be Lawfull for any person to take and carry away all Sea Weed Lying on Sd shores heaped up as the tide Left it."
Fourteen hundred dollars Voted to meet expenses of maintaining the Poor and other Charges of the Town.
"Also Voted that application be made to the Legislature of this State at their next meeting to annex the Town of Huntington to the County of Queens."
Recorded by Moses Rolph,
Town Clerk.
(Town Meetings, Vol. II, pp. 346-52 )
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[THE FERRY TO NORWALK.]
[1817, April 2.]
This Indenture made the second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven- teen between Timothy Conkling president of the Trustees of the freeholders and commonality of the Town of Hun- tington in the County of Suffolk and State of New York by and with the consent of the Other Trustees of sd. Town of the first part and Samuel B. Kelcy & Isaac Scud- der of the Town County and State aforesaid of the second part witnesseth that for and in consideration of the Rents and Covenants hereinafter mentioned and contained which on the part and behalf of the second part are to be paid and performed hath Demised granted and to farm Letten and by these presents Doth Demise and to farm Let unto the sd. party of the second part all that certain ferry from the harbour of Huntington to Norwalk in Connecticut to have and to hold the sd. ferry unto them the sd. party of the second part for and During the full end and term of . six years commencing the Date hereof they the second part paying the sum of eight Dollars therefor yearly and every year During the sd. term hereby granted unto the party of the first part or his successors in office to be applyed for the use of sd. Town and we the sd. party of the second part Do hereby covenant and agree to provide and keep in good Repair a sufficient Boat convenent for the purpose of Carrying passengers stock and Carriages from sd. harbor in Huntington to Norwalk in Connecticut and to keep sd. boat or vessel in sd harbour of Huntington Ready for passengers or frate from the first Day of March to the first Day of December in each and every year During the term herein mentioned except when actually on the passage or Detained by weather or tide and I the sd. Timothy Conkling party of the first part Do hereby
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impower the party of the second part to ask and Receive from every passenger the sum of fifty Cents for his or her passage and for every hors Mare, gilden or Ox the sum of sixty two & & Cents and the sum of seventy five cents. per each and every Carriage with two wheels and for each and every four wheel carriage the sum of one Dollar and we the sd. party of the second part Do covenant and agree to go on the passage in sd. ferry at any time when Weather permit, for two passengers any time between the first Day of March and the first Day of December in each and every year during sd. term herein Mentioned and also
for one passenger provided he or she pay Double passage and it is further agreed that if the yearly rent or any part. thereof shall be unpaid for the space of thirty Days &c .- peaceably and quietly to have hold and Occopy sd. ferry During the term hereby Granted without any Disturbance of me or any other person claiming to from by or under me or under my successors in office in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the sd Town of Huntington the Day and year first above Written.
TIMOTHY CONKLING, P. D.
WILLIAM WICKS MOSES ROLPH [Seal.] (File No. 297.)
[TRUSTEES' LEASE OF THE ISLANDS.]
[1817, July 10.]
To all to whom these presents may come Know ye that I Timothy Conkling president of the Trustees of the free- holders and Commonality of the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County and State of New York by and with the Consent of Solomon Ketcham Samuel Carll Samuel Scid-
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more William Wickes Divine Hewlett & Thomas Ketcham present Trustees of sd. Town for and in Consideration of the sum of fifty Dollars to me in hand hath granted De- mised, Leased and to farm Letten and by these presents Doth grant Demise Lease and to farm Let unto John Carll Richard Van Wyck Edward Dodd Daniel Oakley John Ketcham all the Grass for Mowing this season on the Islands in the South Bay known by the names of Cap tree Oak Island Grass & Jesse Islands together with the Beach opposite thereto in Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seal of the Trustees of said Town of Huntington the tenth Day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
TIMOTHY CONKLING,
P. D. Trustees [Seal.]
In presence of MOSES ROLPH (File No. 296.)
[PETITION OF HUNTINGTON TO THE LEGIS- LATURE FOR A GRANT OF THE ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH BAY .* ]
1817, Dec. 13.]
To the honorable the Legislature of the State of New York in Senate and Assembly convened.
The memorial of the Trustees of the Freeholders and
[* Immediately after the decision of the Court of Chancery, dismissing the suit of the guardians of William Nicoll, the Town of Islip took active steps to secure a grant from the Legislature of the Islands and beaches in question. Hunting- ton was therefore compelled to head this measure off by a coun- ter petition, of which the foregoing is a copy. The result was that neither Huntington or Islip procured the grant applied for as appears by the next paper .- C. R. S.]
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commonality of the Town of Huntington in the County of Suffolk
RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH
That the Town of Huntington was settled and the lands principally purchased of the natives before the conquest of the Colony by the British Government in 1664.
That it became an object with the people to obtain the organization of the Town and a confirmation of their pur- chases as soon as possible after the conquest.
That they obtained Letters Patent from Richard Nicoll the first governor on the 30th day of November A. D. 1666 By which The Town was organized, the title to such lands as were already purchased confirmed with the privilege of making further purchases within certain specified limits, comprehending within the same Three certain Islands commonly called Captree Island, Oak Island and grass Island situate in the South Bay between the south side of the Island & the ocean.
That on the second day of August A. D. 1688 other letters Patent were Issued by Thomas Dongan then gov- ernor of the Colony of New York to the people of the said Town with the same Boundaries, By which the Town was incorporated the former letters Patent recited former purchases confirmed and all the right and Title of the government to the residue of the lands in the limits of the Patent (with certain exceptions) were granted and con- veyed to the said corporation for the use of the Free- holders and Inhabitants of said Town.
That on the fifth day of October A. D. 1694 other letters Patent were issued by Benjamin Fletcher then governor of the said Colony to the said Town, without containing any new grant, by which the incorporation was renewed, the eastern boundary line altered and the corporate liniits of the Town abridged.
That the Trustees of the said Town by virtue of the
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right vested in them by the Secon Patent entered and took possession of the above mentioned Islands and in the year 1705 in order to prevent intrusions within the limits of their possessions and to remove all objection arising from defect of Indian title, extinguished the claim of the few Indians that remained of the tribe within whose Juris- diction they were situated ; to the Islands in dispute.
And from the time the grass became of value have been in the constant and uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the said Islands, cutting the grass and performing such other acts of ownership as could be exercised over them untill within about Twenty years past.
That within that Time the descendants of one William Nicoll have at different times claimed title to the said Islands under pretence of a Patent granted to their ancestor the said William Nicoll the 4th day of June A. D. 1668 and to give color to their pretended title have occa- sionly committed and authorised others to commit trespasses on the said Islands and that divers suits at law have been commenced and prosecuted between your memorialists and those claiming under the said William Nicoll, touching the said Islands and the title thereto.
And that one William Nicoll an infant and descendant from the aforesaid Patentee did lately by his guardians for the purpose of establishing his title to the said Islands and being quieted in the possession thereof, file his bill in the Court of Chancery of this state against your memori- alists and others, acting under them, which after the verdict of a jury on a feigned issue directed by the said Court to try the title of the said William Nicoll to the said Islands, being found against him, and after two hear- ings in the said Court, before the said Court, was dis- missed by the final decree of the said Court on the ground that the said William Nicoll had no title thereto; and from which decree there has been no appeal.
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