The Directors do not select any agents but such as they consider qualified, and are approved by their High Mightinesses and by them provided with regular Commission and Instruction. And as regards the case of Jochim Pitersen and Cornelis Melyn, vfho have been punished for reasons more fully set forth in their sentence, the Board finds it particularly strange that these people dare complain that (to use their own language) evil doers and their gross misdeeds go unpunished, when on the other hand, 'tis notorious that up to the present time, no application has been made to the Directors. As regards the complaints about the petitions, we cannot form any other opinion but that the Governor found sufficient reasons to lay them aside, and hath left them unanswered. Such placards were never communicated to the Board of Directors.

7.

The Board has no knowledge of what the Directors (in N. N.) say; but this is true that the latter represent the Supreme government and the Company, administering justice conformably

to Commission and Instruction, in the name of their High Mightinesses, his Highness and of the Company.

8.

We cannot understand what the petitioners would express by the S"" Article. 9.

We never heard before that the Director spoke harshly to those who treated him respectfully but are now informed that a certain person, who was unwilling to allow his goods to be inspected, behaved with great opposition towards the Director. Wherefore it may be that the latter expressed himself as the occasion required, but we know nothing of the matter.