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. Stuyvesant, L. van Dincklage, Brian Neuton, Paulus Leendertsen van der Grift, and Jan Claessen Bol. After having been collated, this is found to agree with its original, the 16"" of August, 1649, by me, in the absence of the Secretary. (Signed) Jacob Kieft, Clerk.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 351

No. 4. Mandamus in case of the Appeal of Messrs. Ciiyler and Meli/n.

[ Omitted ; being already printed, supra, p. 250. ]

Endorsement on the ensealed Mandamus: -- The States General of the United Netherlands, To all those who shall see or hear this read, health. Be it known. That we, having looked into the further petition presented to us this day, in the name and on the behalf of Jochem Pietersen Cuyter and Cornells Melyn, our subjects and inhabitants in New Netherland, have enlarged, as we do hereby enlarge, the Mandamus on the other side hereof, to wit, that it may be served not only by a messenger, marshal, notary, but by such other person, either public or private, as the aforesaid petitioners together, or one of them, shall accept or permit.