We and Our Council having inquired and taken testimony as to the truth thereof, at the request of said Director Kieft, it is, accordingly, found that such libelous letter is in many parts, false, lying and defamatory, as appears and is proved by experience and by the evidence of others heard to the number of fifteen ; also, by the confession and answers of the co-signers ; Therefore, the Fiscal instituting criminal suit and process, accuses and convicts the aforesaid Jochem Pietersen of having offended against the Director's quality and falsely injured him in writing. All which being fully examined, weighed and every thing being maturely observed and considered by the Hon Director General and Council, the aforesaid perpetrated offence is found to be of great and serious importance, and not to be tolerated or endured in a well ordered and governed Republic, it being a matter of very evil consequence. Therefore the Hon''''' Director General Petrus Sluyvesant, with the advice of his Hon"' Council, administering justice in the name of their High Mightinesses, the Lords Slates General, his Serene Highness, the Hon'''' Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, hath condemned, as he hereby doth condemn, the abovenamed Jochem Pietersen, to a banishment of three consecutive years, and to depart with the earliest opportunity, and in addition, to pay a fine of one hundred and fifty guilders, to be applied one-third for the Fisc, one-third for the Church, and one-third for the Poor. Dismissing the Fiscal's further demand. Thus done and enacted at the Court in fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland, the 25"' July, 1647. Agrees with the Book of Resolutions. (Signed) Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary. All the abovewritten Letters, Declarations, &c., are, after due, careful collation, found to agree with the Originals and principals. At the Hague, the 17"" February, 1650.