At Amsterdam in New Netherland this 22 d day of January 1660.

Signed (Here follows another Patent to De Sille for No. 8.)

Petrus Stuyvesant.

On the 15 th of February 1660, Jacob Van Curler, and Jan Tomassen who had the oversight and charge of the Town, sent to the Fiscal N. de Sille a letter of complaint and also one of enquiry, in the first of which they complained about the bad management in the Town of Utrecht to the injury

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PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND. of the well meaning

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they also complained of certain ring leaders who they would not name, hoping

they would repent and do better in future ; they looked for and expected to have sent to them the

promised Negroes of the Company to set palisades around the village as thought and spoken of by the Director General and Council if they are not sent they desired to resign their situations and to :

have others appointed in their places.

Herewith they send to the Fiscal, draughts of rules which they desire to have put in operation in the Town and which in short are as follows

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An order relating to cattle and hogs jumping over and breaking the fences. 2. An order relating to the saving of powder and lead. 3. An order relating to the building plots of the inhabitants. 4. An order relating to those who own lands but neglect to cultivate and build on the same, and 1.