" authority of the magistracy of this country, condemn the aforesaid Arnoldus " van Hardenberch in the fine of 25 guilders, payable immediately, or to be " imprisoned until the fine be paid, as an example to others." If the lion be now known by his paw, it can be seen that these people make nothing of the name of your High Mightinesses, His Highness of Orange, the honor of the magistracy, and have used the words, dangerous consequences, an example to others and more of the like description, in order to play off their own personages therewith. Jeifn^uhrS'stoJ ^® have, therefore, placed this act alongside of that perpetrated against the Douthy. Minister Douthy ; and many more such pieces, or similar ones, are to be found

in the record, if the entries be not altered, which is gravely suspected, as alterations have been sometimes seen in them. It is, then, sufficiently apparent,

that pretty much every thing has gone amiss, and herewith shall we quit the subject, and pass on to Director Stuyvesant's administration, with a word, howevcr, first regarding J introduced into the patents, & the clause sinisterly as the Of the sinister eianse In the ground briefs. ' b r '

sequel will enable one easily to determine. For by the patents absolute conveyance was granted to the people who then thought all was safe, and that they were masters of wh.it they possessed. The patents were next called in, on pretence that something had been forgotten in them ; but it was not so, only 'twas imagined that something had been surrendered in the grant, and therefore a clause was added to the patents, which were signed anew ; this conflicts directly with the patent, so that without distorting its tenor in the least, there is now a There Is a contra- Contradiction in one and the same patent; for the old deeds read thus: -- "And the same patent. they enter on the land and valleys which appertain thereunto of old." And the clause says, -- No valley to be used before the Company; which can easily use all