The answer to the second is intermixed in the above but further, no man may enjoy more than the true value of his fencing, and what he has expended in his cultivation of his lot including the ;

value of his own labour

:

All received above the ascertained value shall be paid back to his successor.

The Director General and Council are by no means however to be understood as authorizing the first occupants, who have neglected either personally or by others, to build, cultivate and labour on their lands, to seek for pay or profit in such manner as to retard cultivation.

On the 3d point

;

It is ordered that every man, as well in

the

new begun Town of Utrecht as in

other begun Towns consisting of one dwelling or a hamlet, who obtains a lot or building plot, also that all and every one from now forth who has sought or obtained lands, must seek and obtain therefor proper patents, and there obtained lands they must speedily undertake to plant and cultivate, and at the least from the proceedings of the patent have residing and kept thereon one able bodied man.

On the 4th and 5th points the Fiscal was ordered to notify Anthony Van Zalee to keep his cattle and hogs out of the common meadows, and that if he claimed any more right to the meadows to ;

make the same known to the Director General and Council

:

the Fiscal is directed to impound all