Court, therefore, orders and directs that each farmer shall duely set up and repair the old, with new, palisades in front of his lot; and the others, being inhabitants or Burghers oecupying 34 lots: in this village, shall be obliged properly to repair and set up new palisades in place of the old, from the Water gate along the curtains unto the lot of Arent Pietersen Tack, the new palisades being at least two feet in circumference, but the thicker the better, and 13 feet in length, according to the circumstances of the case to be determined by the W. Court. This renewal and setting up shall commence next Monday, being the 224 October. Wherefore every inhabitant is hereby notified to appear at 7 o'clock on the day aforesaid , at the gate near Hendrick Jochemsen's, there, as his name is called, to proceed to work aforesaid, and to continue at it until the same shall be completed, on pain, in case of neglect or unwillingness, of paying for the first offence three guilders ; for the second offence double as much, and so on adding three guilders. Tuus ponr at the Court of the Sheriff and Commissaries of this Village Waldwyck, this 16 October, 1663, (Under written) By order of the Sheriff and Commissaries aforesaid. (Signed) Martnecs + Capito, Secretary.

Two detachments were out in the field to-day with the

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ploughmen, and one at the Redoubt by the river side. N othing else was done to-day.