Against the above stands, By order of the Noble and Right Honorable Lord and Director General and Council of the NewNetherland

:

Witness,

C.

V Ruyven, Secretary.

The order of the 30th of January 1659 referred to in the answer to the 1st, is as follows

:

Proclamation.

All persons are hereby notified and informed, that those who have obtained lots or plantations in the newly settled Town of Utrecht, are hereby directed within six weeks from the date hereof, to

prepare to plant and fence the same, also to seek and obtain of the Secretary of the Director General

and Council proper Deeds, on penalty of forfeiture of the lots, which

may desire them.

will

be given to others

who

Of this all are hereby warned.

Done by order of the Right Honorable Director General and Council of New-Netherland, at Fort Amsterdam in New-Netherland this 30th January 1659. Witness C.

V Ruyven, Secretary.

PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND.

After the preceding there was another Proclamation applying to the

Town of Utrecht, first published by the Director General and Council on the 9th of October 1655, republished and renewed on

the 30th

December 1658 at Fort Amsterdam, and again on the 7th of January 1659 proclaimed

from the Stadt-house at Fort Amsterdam for the benefit of the farmers. Proclamation.

The Director General and Council of New Netherland daily hear great complaints that the posts, rails, clapboards, and other fencing, made with great cost and trouble of the inhabitants, (for the preservation of the crops) around their sowed lands and gardens, are stolen during both night and day, the effect of which is that the cattle come in and destroy the crops, which discourages future planting and sowing, and we also fear that it will happen that in consequence of all the lands and gardens being bare of fencing during the coming winter, the sowed grain will not flourish, and that next season the crops will not be worth mowing