By the Director General and Council of the New Netherland on a hearing of the parties We condemn Albert Albertse alias Lintwever, to amends by paying the penalty of 50 guilders as per ;

proclamation, and to stand imprisonment until the fine be paid.

On this sentence, after being imprisoned, he paid the fine and then removed within the village of New Utrecht. In this year it happened that one Pieter Roeloffe sold his house and building lot in the village of

Utrecht to one Jan Zeelen, and was about selling his farm and meadows, on which he had performed

very little labour, to another man

on this Jan Zeelen applied to the Director General and council to have the said lands given to him, knowing that under the circumstances such lands fell to the Director General and Council. They granted his request and allowed and permitted to the said Jan Zeelen ;

the lot in question known as No. 18, no man being allowed to sell lands for which he had no patent

without liberty first obtained from the public authorities, neither was it lawful

to alienate the same.

This took place on the 16th of Jan. 1660.

In the month of October of this year it came to the ears of the Fiscal, that an individual had done amiss in the village, from which evil consequences were likely to flow.

To punish evil doers, frighten

the vicious, and produce tranquility for the good, the Fiscal sent to the Village half a dozen shackels