lf a fault to be
reckoned for a whole one.

And, as it does not concern the inhabitants what instructions or orders
the patroon gives to his chief agent, the charge is made for the purpose
of making trouble. For these people would like to live without being
subject to any one's censure or discipline, which, however, they stand
doubly in need of.

Again it is said in general terms, but wherein, should be specified and
proven, that the Director exercises and has usurped sovereign power.

That the inhabitants have had need of the Directors appears by the books
of accounts, in which it can be seen that the Company has assisted all
the freemen (some few excepted) with clothing, provisions and other
things, and in the erection of houses, and this at the rate of fifty per
cent. advance above the actual cost in the Fatherland, which is not yet
paid. And they would gladly, by means of complaints, drive the Company
from the land, and pay nothing.

It is ridiculous to suppose Director Kieft should have said that he
was sovereign, like the Prince in the Fatherland; but as relates to the
denial of appeal to the Fatherland, it arose from this, that, in the
Exemptions, the Island of the Manhatans was reserved as the capital of
New Netherland, and all the adjacent colonies were to have their appeal
to it as the Supreme Court of that region.(1)

(1) Art. XX.

Besides, it is to be remarked, that the patroon of the colony of
Renselaerswyck notified all the inhabitants not to appeal to the
Manhatans, which was contrary to the Exemptions, by which the colonies
are bound to make a yearly report of the state of the colony, and of
the administration of justice, to the Director and Council on the
Manhatans.(1)

(1) Art. XXVIII.

The Directors have never had any management of, or meddled with, church
property. And it is not known, nor can it be proven, that any one of
the inhabitants of New Netherland has contributed or given, either
voluntarily or upon solicitation, anything for the erection of an orphan
asylum or an almshouse. It is true that the church standing in the
fort was built in the time of William Kieft, and 1,800 guilders were
subscribed for the purpose, for which most of the subscribers have been
charged in their accounts, which have not yet been paid. The Company in
the meantime has disbursed the money, so that the Commonalty (with a
few exceptions) has not, but the Company Has, paid the workmen. If the
commona