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

of it and have their competency. (37) Another clause is usually inserted in the patents, which is objected to by every one, to wit : That they must be subject to all burthens which are already, or shall hereafter be imposed. -- That can be carried out ad infinitum, and it has already been enforced against divers inhabitants, and has discouraged others from undertaking anything on such conditions.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IV. 307

THE ADMINISTRATION OP DIRECTOR STUYVESANT, IN PARTICULAR.

We sincerely wish we were already through this administration, for it hath been fSonbear8*'h'Md heavy upon us, and we are conscious of our feeble power; we will, nevertheless, make a beginning, and as we have already treated of the public property, ecclesiastical and civil, we shall examine into the administration of justice and the rendering of judgment between man and man, and demonstrate, as with a finger, in the first place, the manner of the Director and Council. As regards the Director, his manner in court has been, from his first arrival unto this time, to browbeat, dispute ^ with and harass one of the two parties not as beseemeth ' ; SUiyvesanl acts the a Jo' iudge, but like a zealous advocate.