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The Town Clerks, Supervisors, Assessors, Constables, Col- lectors, and all other officers heretofore eligible, in manner directed by the present or future acts of legislatures.
Loan Commissioners, County Treasurers, Clerks of the Supervisors, shall continue to be appointed in the manner directed by the present or future acts of the legislature.
The powers and duties of Supervisors, under the con- stitution of 1777, and the acts of the legislature of that year under it, were nearly the same as under the Colo- nial laws. They were auditors of charges against the county, assessed these charges against the different towns, according to their quotas, granting warrants for their collection; and, in examining the accounts of the Loan Officers and County Treasurers, their powers and duties were greatly enlarged by subsequent acts of the legislature, as we shall see, and they were afterwards elected by ballots.
1784. The first entry that appears on the record of the proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Kings County, after the Evacuation of Long Island, No- vember, 1783, is the following :
We, the Supervisors of Kings County, do hereby author- ize, nominate and appoint Rutgert Van Brunt and Isaac Cortleyou, to meet the Conference of Supervisors at the place appointed, Flatbush, July 1st, 1784.
Philip Nagle. Abraham Vorhees.
Charles Titus. Tunis Bergen. Supervisors.
When these Supervisors were elected, or what was the nature of the Conference of Supervisors, to which
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Messrs. Van Brunt and Cortelyou were appointed to meet, does not appear.
The next entry on the record of the proceedings of the Kings County Supervisors, is the following :
"The aforesaid Judges and Supervisors, having examined the books of Rutgert Van Brunt and John Cowenhoven, Loan Commissioners of said county, agreeable to the act of the legislature for loaning monies to the State, passed April 18th, 1786, the said Rutgert Van Brunt and John Cowenhoven, have produced to us, the said Judge and Supervisors, a full discharge of the said Loan Officers, with thanks for their services rendered to said county for the faithful discharge of their duty.
1784. The first regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors for Kings County, after the with- drawal of the British troops from Long Island, took place July 14, 1784. As this meeting was of great importance, embracing much of the history, the laws and the families of that day, we give the proceedings entire, as follows:
At a meeting held this 14th day of July, 1784, at Flatbush, in Kings County, present :
Philip Nagel, for Flatbush,
Tunis Bergen,
" Brooklyn,
Charles Titus, " Bushwick,
Abraham Vorhees, " Flatlands,
Rutgert Van Brunt,
" Gravesend,
Isaac Cortlyou, " New Utrecht,
We have unanimously chosen Jeremias Vanderbilt, of Flatbush, in the County of Kings, aforesaid, Treasurer of Kings County, and Nicholas Cowenhoven, their clerk, and then adjourned till the next meeting."
It does not appear when the above Supervisors were elected, nor to what time and at what place the said board adjourned.
We find the proceedings of a meeting of the Board of Supervisors which took place at Flatbush, December 12, 1784, which board was composed of the same mem- bers as the last meeting of the board, July 14th.
Jeremias Vanderbilt, the Treasurer, and Nicholas Cowenhoven appointed at that meeting, were present, and signed their names to the entry of the proceedings; so that the mecting of December 12th, 1784, was an adjourned meeting of the July previous.
The following entry in their record shows the amount of the indebtedness of the county for the year 1784.
The above Supervisors agree to proportion the several sums as follows : for the several townships, to be raised, assessed, and collected, as the law directs, the sum of £6,500, and the sum of £6,500, being in whole £13.000, and the Super- visors have agreed to proportion the different townships as follows, viz .:
Brooklyn township, the sum of. £3,932: 7: 1
Flatbush
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2,567:12:11
Flatlands "
1,625: 00:00
Bushwick
1,625: 00: 00
Gravesend
1,625: 00: 00
New Utrecht . 66
1,6.5: 00: 00
£13,000:00:00
The above is all agreed to, this 14th day of December, 1784.
Philip Nagel, Isaac Cortelyou, Charles Titus, Abraham Voorhees,
R. Van Brunt, All Supervisors of Kings County.
Jere. Vanderbilt, Treasurer,
Nicholas Cowenhoven, Clerk.
The sum of money thus assessed against the county would seem to be excessively large compared with the sums assessed against it during the Colonial period. But it must be remembered that no bills had been pre- sented and audited against the county since October, 1782, and the towns, except one, refused to pay the said bills. During the time the county was in possession of the British, the court-house and jail were greatly dam- aged and other public property destroyed, so that ex- penses of repairing these buildings, greatly enhanced the expenses of the county. The record of the proceed- ings of the Supervisors at this meeting continues as follows, by which it will be seen the Brooklyn Supervi- sor attempted to have the assessment against his town reduced on account of the " Brooklyn Exiles," meaning the Tories, who were compelled to leave the county when the British evacuated Long Island.
"Tunis Bergen, the Brooklyn Supervisor, strongly desires that some small sum, say £300 or £500, ought to be taken from their proportion, because the Brooklyn Exiles were exempt from the £100,000 tax. But the other Supervisors would not, by any means, agree that he should have anything taken from the sum £3.932: 7: 1 (the proportionment of Brooklyn) because they all agree, in opinion, that the taxes would still come lighter on Brooklyn, than any other township in the county, this was their opinion.
Nicholas Cowenhoven, Clerk,"
" The Supervisors have also agreed to raise the further sum of two hundred and twenty-four pounds, seventeen shillings and one-half pence for repairing the court-house and goal of the said county, and other contingent charges and expenses to be raised, assessed, and collected, and have agreed to the following expenses, and proportioned it for the different towns as follows, and have agreed that each township shall raise their arrears as follows:"
Here follows the items of the account against the county, which was duly audited. We find the follow- ing item among the accounts thus andited:
For printing a patriotic address. .£3: 4: 0.
" The said Supervisors have also resolved that, and agreed that if any poor person, or vagrant, comes to expense in any town, that each township bears its own expense. Also resolved that all Judges and Assemblymen, are to be desired to meet from time to time with the Supervisors.
On supposition, the following is the quantity of land on a calculation made in 1775 in Kings County :
Brooklyn
No. ACRES. 5,193
Flatbush. 4,060
New Utrecht. .2,635
Flatlands ..
.2,313
Bushwick. .2,443
Gravesend .. 2,304
18,948
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It is also further agreed that if the burden of taxes come harder on the inhabitants of the one town than the other, in such case, such matters to be considered, and redress given by the Supervisors to lower such proportionment, with the intent that all bear an equal proportion of taxes according to circumstances, abilities, etc., etc.
It is further ordered that the contingent expenses of the taxes, for collecting, assessing, and other charges thereon, not pointed out, be retained in the hands of the treasurer and collectors, ordered to be raised as the other contingent charges of the county, and can and may be brought in by each supervisor for his own town, or can bring the whole together in the county tax if they like. But the whole to be done as the law of the State of New York directs.
N. COWENHOVEN, Clerk."
Immediately after making the foregoing entries in the proceedings of the board this year, Mr. Cowenhoven, having been appointed by the Governor, first Judge of the county, resigned the clerkship of the county of Kings, according to the following entry :
" Whereas, Nicholas Cowenhoven, Esq., cannot consistently act longer as clerk of the supervisors, lie therefore desires to be discharged therefrom, which was done, and we have nominated and appointed Jacob Sharp, Jr., the clerk of Kings County, to be their clerk in the room and stead of Nicholas Cowenhoven, who however resigned, considering his appointment to be incompatible with the office of first Judge of the county."
Thus ended the first regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Kings County, under the Federal Con- stitution, and the law and constitution of New York.
Thereafter, we shall only give an abridged history of the proceedings of the supervisors of the county, viz., the names of those constituting the various boards and the names of their clerks, treasurers, loan officers, &c., briefly describing the most important of their proceed- ings, noting the changes made in regard to them by different acts of the Legislature of the State.
1785 .- The Supervisors elected in the county this year met at Flatbush, on the first Tuesday of April. The board consisted of the following members :
Philip Nagel, for Flatbush,
Vernundes [Ferdinandus] Suydam, " Brooklyn,
Charles Titus,
Bushwick,
Rutgert Van Brunt, " Gravesend,
Ulpianes Van Sinderen,
" Flatlands,
Isaac Cortelyou,
" New Utrecht.
The county was indebted in the sum of £112: 16: 0, according to bills presented, which was ordered paid according to law.
1786 .- The Supervisors met this year, and the follow- ing were the members of the board :
At a meeting of the Judges and Supervisors, the 29th day of May, 1786, present : Nicholas Cowenhoven, Johannes E. Lott, Peter Lefferts, and John Vanderbilt, Judges.
Ferdinand Suydam, Supervisor for Brooklyn,
Bush wick,
Charles Titus, Philip Nagel,
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Flatbush,
Jaques Barklow,
" New Utrecht,
Albert Terhune,
Gravesend,
Ulpianus Van Sinderen
66 Flatlands.
The board with the judges appointed Philip Nagel and Rutgert Van Brunt loan officers of the county, according to law.
Philip Nagle having been appointed treasurer, John Cowenhoven was appointed loan officer in his place. Jacob Sharp was continued in the office of clerk. There were threc meetings of the board this year, May, July and September. The indebtedness of the county this year was in all £2,493: 17: 6.
1787 .- The Board of Supervisors met this year, January 20th, and consisted of the following members, with the judges of the county.
Philip Nagel, for Flatbush,
Ferdinand Suydam, " Brooklyn,
Charles Titus, " Bushwick,
Ulpines Van Sinden, " Flatlands,
Albert Terhune,
Jaques Barklow,
" Gravesend, " New Utrecht, Jacob Sharp, Jr., clerk.
This meeting adjourned until the 2d day of March, 1787. Present, as before.
" The above supervisors and judges find the county entitled to a piece of ground lying about the court-house in said county, and have nominated and appointed Johannes E. Lott, Peter Lefferts and John Vandervoort, Esqs., commissioners for to view the premises, and report as soon as convenient to the clerk of the said supervisors what they had found belong- ing to the county. By order of the supervisors,
JACOB SHARP, Jr., Clerk."
"At an adjourned meeting of the Board, held on the 27th day of April, the commissioners reported that they found that the said land did belong to the said county, and that they had let it with the remainder of the county-house lot to J. Van Buren for one year, for the sum 40 shillings." The indebtedness of the county this year amounted to £23: 0: 0.
The Board had four meetings this year. The first, Jan. 20th ; the second, April 27th; the third, Sep. 4th; the fourth on the 1st day of October. At the October meeting the supervisors settled with John Cowenhoven, and Rutgert Van Brunt, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature entitled "An act for emitting £200,000 in bills of credit, for the purpose therein mentioned," passed April 18th, 1786. Jacob Sharp was continued in the office of clerk.
1788 .- The supervisors for this year were: Ferdi- nand Suydam, Albert Terhune, Charles Titus, M. Schenck, Jaques Barklow, Johannes I. Lott; Jacob Sharp, Clerk.
The board met April 7th, 1787. By an act of the Legislature, boards of supervisors of the respective counties in the State were constituted boards of can- vassers to canvass the ballots for member of Assembly and for delegates to a Convention.
April 7th, 1787. The board of supervisors of Kings County, having met, according to law, for canvassing the ballots for members of Assembly and delegates to the Convention, find that Peter Vandervoort and Aquila Giles are elected mem-
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bers of Assembly, and that Peter Lefferts and Peter Van- dervoort are elected delegates to the Convention.
The charges against the county this year amounted to £44: 12: 0 ; which the supervisors audited.
1789 .- The Supervisors this year elected were : Fer- dinand Suydam, Charles Titus, Johannes I. Lott, Isaac Cortelyou, Nicholas Schenck, Albert Terhune. The Supervisors agree to raise money for building a gallery in the court-house.
The indebtedness against the county this year amounted to £75: 8: 9, which they allowed and directed to be paid.
Jacob Sharp was retained as clerk of the board.
1790 .- The Supervisors this year elected were : Fer- dinand Suydam, Albert Terhune, Isaac Cortelyou, Nicholas Schenck, Johannes I. Lott.
The accounts against the county this year amounted to £18: 2: 6.
1791 .- At a meeting of the judges and supervisors of Kings County, held April 12th, agreeable to an act of the Legislature, entitled an act for building a court- house and goal in said county, passed March 10th, 1791. Present : Nicholas Cowenhoven, Peter Lefferts and John Vanderbilt, Judges. Ferdinand Suydam, Albert Terhune, Isaac Cortelyou, Johannes I. Lott, Nicholas Schenck, Supervisors.
The Judges and Supervisors appointed three com- missioners to superintend the building of the said court-house and gaol. Jolin Vanderbilt, Johannes L. Lott, and Charles Doughty, were appointed such commissioners. The Supervisors further resolved to raise the sum of £1,200, agreeable to the aforesaid act ; that is to say, £800 on or before the Ist day of June next, and the remaining part on or before the 1st day of October next.
The Board adjourned until the 16th inst.
At a meeting of the Supervisors, held April 16, 1791, to fix the quotas of each town in the expense of building the new court-house and goal, apportioned the said amount as follows:
Brooklyn.
£256:1: 0
Flatbush
189:5:10
Flatlands
98:1: 1
Gravesend. 77:1: 1
New Utrecht 100:3: 2
Bushwick
98:2: 7
£840:2: 7
The indebtedness against the county this year, aside from the expenses of the new court-house and goal, is £50: 18: 9. Jacob Sharp, clerk.
The matter of building the new court house and jail in the county was one of great importance to the Su- pervisors this year, requiring several meetings of the Board. After the plans and specifications had been adopted, it was proposed to change them, increasing the expense largely. The Board finally adjourned sine die, August 30, 1791.
1792. The Supervisors elected this year were Fer- dinand Snyder, Albert Terhune, Nicholas Schenck, Isaac Cortelyou, Charles Titus, Johannes I. Lott. Jacob Sharp, Jun., was chosen clerk ; Rutgert Van Brunt and John Cowenhoven were elected loan officers. The expenses of the county this year were £48: 13: 3. In addition to this sum, £300 was raised to complete the court-house and jail ; this was in addition to the amount already raised.
1793. The Supervisors elected this year were Albert Terhune, Nicholas Schenck, Johannes I. Lott, John Skillman.
The first meeting of the Board took place May 28, at the court-house, in Flatbush ; Jacob Sharp, Jr., was chosen clerk.
The accounts against the county this year amounted to £62: 0: 6.
1794. The Supervisors elected this year were Fer- dinand Suydam, Albert Terhune, Nicholas Schenck, Johannes I. Lott, John Skillman; Jacob Sharp, Jr., was chosen clerk.
The accounts against the county this year amounted to £25: 9: 3.
1795. The Supervisors elected this year were Ferdi- nand Suydam, Albert Terhune, Nicholas Schenck, Johannes I. Lott, and John Skillman ; Jacob Sharp was chosen clerk of the Board. The accounts against the county this year amounted to £26: 10: 8.
1796. The Supervisors elected this year were Albert Terhune, Ferdinand Suydam, Nicholas Schenck, Ad- rian Hageman, John Skillman, Johannes I. Lott; Jacob Sharp, Jr., was chosen clerk.
The accounts against the county this year amounted to £14: 10:0.
The Supervisors voted to apportion the sum of £188, granted for the schools of Kings County, which will be payable to the treasurer of said county on the 3d Tuesday of March, 1797. This is the first appropria- tion for the support of common schools, of which there is any record.
1797. The Supervisors elected this year were Jo- hannes E. Lott, Albert Terhune, Ferdinand Suydam, Adrian Hageman, Johannes I. Lott ; Jacob Sharp, Jr., was chosen clerk.
The accounts against the county this year amounted to £78: 7: 0.
1798. The Supervisors elected this year were Fer- dinandus Suydam, Albert Terhune, Nicholas Schenck, Adrian Hageman, John Skillman, Johannes I. Lott. Jacob Sharp, Jr., was chosen clerk of the Board.
The accounts against the county this year amounted to £93: 14: 7, exclusive of the amount proportioned to the different towns for the support of common schools,
1799. The Supervisors elected this year were Ad- rian Hageman, Ferdinandus Suydam, John Skillman. Rem. Williamson, Nicholas Schenck, and Johannes I. Lott.
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At a mecting of the Board, held May 28th, Jacob Sharp, Jr., was chosen clerk. The accounts against the county this ycar, exclusive of the school accounts, were the following:
To Michael Van Cleif, for boards for the court-house .. £2: 5: 0
To Michael Van Cleif, as per account ... 2: 7:6 To Rutgert Van Brunt, Coroner, 2 Inquisitions.
At an adjourned meeting, held October 29th, items of account were presented and allowed, amounting to £40: 13: 1.
1800. The Supervisors elected this year were Ad- rian Hageman, John Skillman, Rem. Williamson, Jere- miah Johnson, and Hendrick Lott. At a meeting of the Board, held June 24th, Jacob Sharp was chosen clerk. The accounts presented and allowed against the county this year amounted to £75: 2: 4.
Among these accounts was the following :
Supervisor's fees, each 32s. £8: 16: 0
Clerk's fees. . 2: 0:0
1801. The Supervisors elected this year were John Skillman, Johannes Remsen, Rem. Williamson, Jere- miah Johnson. At a meeting of the Board together, Ist Judge Johannes E. Lott, and Associate Judges Adrian Hageman and Johannes I. Lott, and Rutgert Van Brunt and John Cowenhoven, Loan officers, Jere- miah Lott was chosen clerk. At this meeting, the ac- counts of the Loan officers were examined, and found correct.
According to an act of the Legislature, then recently passed, the accounts against the county were to be rendered separately by the towns in which the account accrucd, similar to the present practice. In addition to this, there were items which were charged against the county. All accounts were aggregated against the county, and the sum total was apportioned against each town, according to its quota. It also now be- came the duty of the Board of Supervisors to take up the Assessment Rolls of the different towns, and com- plete the same according to a statute passed since the last meeting of the Board, in 1800 ; so that the present duties of Boards of Supervisors have not become much more laborious and important than formerly. The whole amount of indebtedness of the county this year, 1801 was £213: 3: 4.
1803. The Supervisors elected this year were : Jo- hannes I. Lott, Adrian Hegeman, Johannes Remsen, John Terhune, Jeremiah Johnson.
The Loan Commissioners were : Rutgert Van Brunt and John Cowenhoven. At the annual meeting of the Board, held Ist Tuesday of October, Jeremiah Lott was chosen Clerk of the Board.
The charges against the several towns in the county amounted to the sum of $253.11.
1804. The Supervisors of the county this year werc: Adrian Hegeman, New Utrecht; John Skillman, Bush- wick; Johannes Remsen, Flatlands; Jeremiah John-
son, Brooklyn; John Terhune, Gravesend; John C. Vanderveer, Flatbush. Jeremiah Lott was chosen Clerk of the Board.
The contingent expenses of the county this year were $307; the town charges, $1,311.66-total, $1,618.66.
1805. The Supervisors this year were : John Skill- man, Jeremiah Johnson, John Terhune, Engelbert Lott, John C. Vanderveer.
At a meeting of the Board, on the 30th day of March, Jeremiah Lott was made Clerk. Loan Commissioner Col. Rutgert Van Brunt having resigned, and Loan Commissioner John Cowenhoven having died since the last meeting of theBoard, there were no Loan Officers in the county. At an adjourned meeting, held on the 30th March, John Terhune and Jeremiah Lott were chosen Loan Officers. The contingent expenses of the county this year were $340.02 ; the indebtedness of the different towns, $2,121.12.
1806. The Supervisors this year were : John Skill- man, Bushwick; Johannes Remsen, Flatlands; Jere- miah Johnson, Brooklyn; John Terhune, Gravesend; John C. Vandervcer, Flatbush ; Engelbert Lott, New Utrecht. Jeremiah Lott was chosen Clerk.
Johannes I. Lott having resigned the office of Treasurer of the county, Hendrick I. Lott was appointed in his place.
The following statement of the aggregate amount of real and personal estate in the county was transmitted to the Comptroller of the State, according to the statute in such case made and provided :
Brooklyn, $1,084,190 ; Flatbush, $377,612 ; Bushwick, $275,000; New Utrecht, $272,874; Flatlands, $192,600; Graves- end, $178,477. Total, $2,380,753.
The charges against the county for contingencies this year werc $419.50, which was, as usual, apportioned among the several towns in the county.
The town charges this year were as follows:
Brooklyn, one election. $35 00
To maintenance of the poor. 1,000 00
To Building a House of Correction. 1,000 00
Assessor's fees 28 00
Town Clerk's fees 6 00
Copying assessment roll. .. 3 00
Total $2,072 00
Flatbush town charges, $225; Bushwick, $128.75; New Utrecht, $51.25; Flatlands, $242.50; Gravesend, $51 81.
1807 .- The Supervisors this year were John Skillman, Bushwick ; Johannes Remsen, Flatlands ; John Terhune, Gravesend ; John C. Vandervcer, Flatbush ; Engelbert Lott, New Utrecht.
The Board met June 2d, 1807, when the following resolutions were passed:
Resolved, That the debtor's room in the goal of this county is not sufficiently secure for the confinement and safe keeping of prisoners who cannot, or will not, pay their honest debts; several having escaped.
Resolved, That the walls and doors in the said room, or
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such parts thereof as may be adjudged necessary, be cross- barred with iron, and that the floor of the said room be planked with oak, said planks being spiked down.
It is very evident that the Supervisors of that day were determined that men should pay their debts, or, in default, languish in jail.
The Board met again on the second Tuesday of October, electing Jeremiah Lott, Clerk. The contin- gent expenses of the county this year amounted to $892.48; the expenses for the town of Brooklyn were $2,259. One item of this account was $1,000 for main- taining the poor. Another item was $1,200 for a fire engine, to be taxed in the first fire district.
Flatbush expenses, $238.38; New Utrecht, $46.50; Bush- wick, $111.25; Flatlands, $107.50; Gravesend, $36.25.
1808. The Supervisors this year were: Elias Hubbard, Jr., Judge ; John Skillman, Johannes Remsen, Jeremiah Johnson, John Terhune, John C. Vanderveer, Engelbert Lott,-Jeremiah Lott, Clerk ; John Terhune and Jermiah Lott, Loan officers.
The contingent expenses of the county this year amounted to $761.90; Brooklyn town expenses were $3,059. Among the items making up this sum are the following:
To maintaining the poor, $1,000; To building an alms- house, $3,059; Flatlands, $67.50; New Utrecht, $50; Flatbush, $288.75; Bushwick, $61.25; Gravesend, $36.25.
1809. The Supervisors this year were Garret Stryker, Judge ; John Skillman, Johannes Remsen, Jeremiah Johnson, John Terhune, John C. Vanderveer, Engelbert Lott, Supervisors ; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk. The contingent expenses of the county this year were $423.49; Brooklyn town expenses, $3,247.12. Among the items that make up this amount were:
For maintaining the poor, $1,500; Flatbush, $350.62; New Utrecht, $50; Bushwick, $61.25; Flatlands, $77.50 ; Graves- end, $36.25.
1810. The Supervisors this year were: Garret Stryker, Judge ; John Skillman, Johannes Remsen, John Terhune, John C. Vanderveer, Engelbert Lott, Supervisors ; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk ; John Terhune and Jeremiah Lott, Loan officers. The contingent ex- penses of the county this year were $300.74.
1811. The Supervisors this year were : Elias Hubbard, Judge ; John Skillman, Johannes Remsen, Jeremialı Johnson, John Terhune, John C. Vanderveer, Engelbert Lott, Supervisors ; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk ; John Terhune, Jeremiah Lott, Loan officers.
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