Which We and our Council having investigated and inquired into, at the request of said many points of false and Director Kieft, said calumnious letter has been found to consist in defamatory lies, as is apparent and proved by experience itself, by the testimony of others heard to the number of fifteen, also by the declaration and answers of the co-signers. Whereupon the Fiscal instituting criminal action and suit, charged, accused and convicted said Melya of having here committed in writing against the Hon'''* Director Kieft the crime of insult, defamation and falsehood, and consequently is declared guilty of LcsscB Majestalis.

Which documents and proofs having been examined, investigated and inquired into by the Director General and Council, and everything material having been duly weighed, the case was found to be of very bad consequence, and ought and cannot be tolerated in a law abiding and well regulated government, but must be punished as an example to others. Wherefore, the Hon'''*' Petrus Stuyvesant, Director General, with the advice of h^s Council, name of the High and Mighty Lords States General, his Serene administering justice in the Highness the Lord Prince of Orange, and the Hon'''"' Directors of the General Incorporated West India Company, hath sentenced and condemned, as he doth hereby sentence and condemn, the aforesaid Cornells Melyn, to be banished for seven years from the district and jurisdiction of New Netherland, and also to depart by the first ship, revoking all previous granted benefits, actions and pretensions which he may have obtained, or yet claims from the Hon'"'" Directors; and, moreover, to pay a fine of three hundred Carolus guilders, to be applied, one-third for the Poor, one-third for the Fiscal, and one-third for the Church; dismissing the Fiscal's further demand. Thus done and enacted at the Assembly, in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland, the 25th July, A" 1647. (Signed) P.