Stuvvcsant has been, almost the whole of the time from his "^ first coming profitably busy in , c }h?^ C'mpanj'a afto our leaving, busy building, laying masonry, constructing, breaking up, renttmg and so forth ; but generally, on the Company's account and little to their expended than they are worth however advantage, for on some things more is ;

he at first put the church in order, which had come into his hands in very After the wno.ien bad repair, and shortly afterwards constructed a wooden wharf, each of which wharr and cljurcli, r J '

for'ihe" eo^'e ''"°° is of great use and very convenient; but subsequent to this we know of nothing either done or made, that is entitled to the name of public work. Notwithstanding, the receipts have been sufficiently ample, as is evident from the yearly account; yet, like dropsical people, the cry was still incessantly for more. As a consequence, great discontent arose in a short time every where, not only among the burghers, who had very little to say, but also even among the Company's oflScers, so that divers protests passed between them on account of the expense and waste consequent on unnecessary councillors, officers, servants and so forth, entirely unknown to the Majores, and by reason of the appropriation and employment, for private purposes, of funds and means which were raised from the public; but all in vain little or no improvement followed. ;

And the more people tried to aid, restore and mend matters, the worse has it been for, swayed by pride, a determination entirely contrary was adopted, as ;