Upon the whole from the present View I have of the Indian Claim it appears to me to be very doubtfuU on their side but it is possible it may be cleared up by better Information I hope I shall be excused in giviiig my opinion that as they are poor, and cannot bear the Expence of a Law Suit, when by sufficient Information their Titles shall appear good, and it can be known in what Method they should proceed, they ought to make application to sue in Forma pauperis, when tliey will meet with the same Indulgenco as the rest of his Majesty's Subjects, and have an Attorney and Council appointed to prosecute for them. I have the Honor to be Sir

Your most obedient * and most humble servant

J. T. Kempe.

New York Sepr 27<h 1764.

Dec 5-1764 Read in Council ; the Council advised his Honour to recommend to the Indians to sue in Chancery for their Right and to inform them that on their application they will be assigned Council as paupers.

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BEI.ATINO TO THB

Citg of J^etD-lJork

SEAL OF NEW AMSTERDAM; 1654.

SEAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ; 1686 •

EARLY SEALS OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

The City of New Amsterdam, now New York, obtained in the year 1654 its first Seal, a fac Simile of which will be found on the opposite page. " We have decreed that a Seal for the City of New Amsterdam shall be proposed and forwarded," write the Directors of the West India Company to Gov. Stuyvesanton the 18th May 1654. > The Vessel by which it was sent to this country, sailed from Holland on the 17th or 18th of July following,^ and on the 8th of December of the same year, " the Director General delivered to the presiding Burgomaster Mart.