from Holland contrary to the Hon'''" Company's commission, to dismiss Fiscal Hendrick van Dyck's suit, when he wanted to prosecute said skipper to confiscation, for having returned thither a second time to trade? Is it not monopoly in the Director, on skipper Adriaen Blommert's arrival at New Netherland

from Holland, to destine and send him to Cura9ao and Aruba, to take in horses there, which he sold in Antigua? Is it not monopoly in the Director to send horses by Arent van Curler from New Netherland to Barbadoes in the ship denJongen Prins van Dennemarquen, to be sold there, which were required

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in New Netherland for the cultivation of the soil and for the benefit and advantage of the Hon'"'' Company's domain in these parts? Is it not monopoly and are they not fraudulent papers, when the Director grants lands

(mostly to the English,) and issues patents thereof in the name of the Director and Council, as if the Fiscal and I had voted for them, when we, nevertheless, had no knowledge of them ? Is it not monopoly and are they not private conventicles, when postils, judgments and sentences are pronounced in the name of the Director and Council, unknown to me and the Fiscal? Is it not monopoly in the Director to distribute and absolutely grant away in fee to individuals, lands and lots acquired at great cost by the Hon*"'' Company, and among the rest wild woodland ? Is it not monopoly for the Director to visit the English at the North, and there, without the Fiscal's or my order and consent, to confer and make treaties, and not render any report thereof to the Council, notwithstanding he was thereunto frequently invited? Is it not monopoly in the Director to alienate and sell the Company's shot and munitions of •war, without the Fiscal's and my consent ?