on all forfeits, excesses and crimes; all delinquents, contraveners, and transgressors of the law martial and all other Instructions and orders, as well of the aforesaid Assembly of the XIX. as of the aforesaid Director, to summon and, according to demand and circumstances, to prosecute : to proceed to definitive judgment ; to execute the same, ami delinquents to cause to be punished, pursuant to the contents thereof, and moreover to do and observe all that it behooves a good Fiscal to perform, following and observing, in his proceedings and complaints, all proper formalities in conformity to the placards and ordinances which have been promulgated here, and moreover conformably to wrttten laws. We, therefore, order and command all officers, as well political, military as naval, together with all common mariners, soldiers, and all other

inhabitants under our obedience there, or who shall hereafter come thither, to acknowledge and respect the said Hendrick van Dyck as our Fiscal, and him in the prosecution ol his office in no way to inierrupl, but in support ofjustice all help and furthermore by deeds to show and atfird ; therein shall our earnest intention be met. Given at the Assembly in Amsterdam this 2S"' June, 1G45. Was paraphed SiMO.v van der Does '^. Beneath By Order of the same. (Signed) Gysbert Rudolphi.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 495

Instruction of the Commissioners at the Assembly of the XIX. of the General Incorporated West India Company for tiie Director and Council of New Netherland, according to which they shall provisionally and until further order regulate themselves.