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The charter of the city of New-York / printed by order of the mayor, recorder, alderman and commonalty of the city aforesaid. To which is annexed, the Act of the General Assembly confirming the same.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection Folio AC7 N4899 735c
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
New York (N.Y.)
Contributor:
Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
National Book Committee.
Municipal charters--New York (State)--New York.
Municipal charters.
Charters.
New York (State)--New York.
New York (N.Y.)--Charters.
New York (N.Y.).
Penn Provenance:
Dechert, Robert (donor)
Physical Description:
52 pages ; 32 cm (in folder and slipcase 33 cm) (folio)
Place of Publication:
New-York, : printed by John Peter Zenger., 1735.
Notes:
Charter granted by Governor John Montgomerie, dated 15 Jan. 1730.
Previous charter, granted by Governor Thomas Dongan on 22 April 1686, published New York, 1720.
Signatures: pi1 A-M² chi1 (pi1 verso blank).
Pages 12-13 misnumb.: "10-11".
"An act for confirming unto the city of New-York its rights and priviledges." (p. 51-52).
First printed edition of the Montgomerie charter.
Cited in:
Evans 3942.
Sabin 54165.
Rutherford, L. John Peter Zenger, Bib., 152-153, [1] plate.
JCB Lib. Annual Rep. 1926: 5, 11.
Church Cat., 920
Contains:
New York (State). Act for confirming unto the city of New-York its rights and priviledges.
OCLC:
80372885

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