Kindnesses do not avail, we must, therefore, have recourse to God, to Nature and the Law. accordingly hereby charge and

We

command your Honors, whenever you shall certainly discover any

Clandestine Meetings, Conventicles or machinations against our States' government or that of our

Country, that you proceed against such malignants in proportion to their crimes, with this precaution however, that we in no wise require that any one should have it in his power to complain, with reason or cause, that he was injured through private malice, which is far from our intention.

"We remark in many Representations, though of Malversants that some hide themselves under this cloak, though we must believe and even see, that

they have not, in reality, so suffered; yet to

stop the mouth of all the world, we have resolved, on your Honors' proposition, to permit you heremuch as possible, after the custom of this City to which end printed copies relative to all the Law Courts and their whole government are sent herewith. And we presume that it will be sufficient at first to choose one by, to erect there a Court of Justice (een banck van Justitie) formed, as :

two Burgomasters and five Schepens, from all of whose judgments an appeal shall lie to the Supreme Council, where definite judgment shall be decreed. " In the Election of the aforesaid persons every attention must be paid to honest and respectable individuals who we hope can be found among the Burghers and especially do we wish that those promoted thereto be, as much as possible, persons of this Nation, who we suppose will give the most satisfaction to the Burghers and Inhabitants. Sheriff,