was promised and enacted, in all placards, that all the money was to be employed lZ%t """monry for commendable and necessary public works, let us now examine for a moment for'" the" %TO°.'ie'a what laudable public works there are in this country, and what fruits all the donations and contributions have hitherto borne. But in order not to commit any error in this matter, we must not be understood to include the goods and effects of the Hon''''= Company, and which are its property, for whatever belongs

particularly to any person, never was public; and the Company's property in this country, including forts, cannon, ammunition, farm-houses, warehouses, dwellinghouses, buildings, horses, cattle, vessels, and whatever else may be, possibly ^cu, ?„"'y.XfhlrI

amount to between 60,000 and 70,000 guilders. And it is very probable that the a°boui Sm"tlv\. „ , II, . on" , . Builders. . , lis

debts against ° it are somewhat more. But laying this aside, we shall turn our debts ihere lo some- ./ more. ^ ^ (Ijj^g

attention to the public property, and see how the money has from time to time been employed according to the placards. If we are correctly informed, and have fully investigated and examined all these, we cannot ascertain or find that any

thing -- we say any thing -- big or little, worth mentioning, was done, built or constructed, during Director Kieft's administration, in which the people were ^,e"i',«ipie''i'n"Kieiv8 concerned or had any interest, except the Church, of which we have already """' spoken. Yea, so much negligence and carelessness prevailed in the matter, that nothing was proposed, undertaken or done with even an ostensible appearance of