The Hon'''* Mess" Lubbertus van Dincklage, Vice-Director, and Henricus van Dyck, Advocate-Fiscal of New Netherland, declaring, in form of complaint, that Director Petrus Stuyvesant said, in substance, on the fourth of July last, in full court, that the Directors of the General Incorporated West India Company had notified him not to communicate to us any general letter either of their Honors, of their High Mightinesses the Lords States General, his Highness or others relating to the affairs of this country. They, accordingly, declare that his Honor, pursuant hereunto, has not been pleased to exhibit or to communicate to us, up to

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this day, any letter relating to public affairs either from the Company, from their High Mightinesses, or from his Highness. Item, that his Honor was pleased to treat on public affairs

witli the English of New England without any resolution or concurrence of our Assembly, notwithstanding both the one and the other of us protested against it at divers times. That his Honor conveys a great deal of land, mostly to the English, and deeds thereof are issued in the name of the Director General and Council, without our having any knowledge thereof; that his Honor delivers many orders, replies to petitions, judgments and sentences which his clerk, Jacob Kip, issues, without our knowledge and advice that his Honor, also, disposes of ;

the ship's stores independent of us ; that his Honor, likewise without us, appointed and commissioned, as Lieutenant of a company of soldiers consisting of 23 men, an Englishman named Brian Nuton, who does not understand the Dutch language, and pronounces judgment, with his Honor, on political and all other matters. Item, he retains, as councillor, a Frenchman named La Montague, on like footing, who is indebted to the Company fully ten thousand guilders and now, again, adjoins as Councillor and Commissary one Carel Verbruggen, also ;