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.

I, as Fiscal, have never seen, nor been furnished with, nor had directly or indirectly, any communicatioa of, any further or other than this general provisional, and my own particular, Instruction.

1.

The Supreme Council in the Countries of New Netherland shall consist of three persons, namely The Director a« President, his Vice and the Fiscal, by whom all occurring :

affairs relating to police, justice, militia, the dignity and just rights of the Company, shall be administered and decided, each remaining bound, nevertheless, to vindicate his own Commission.

The Supreme government in the Countries of New Netherland in all occurring cases is, and was undertaken and administered hy the Director alone, on his own authority, accordino- to his pleasure, in granting comtnissions, forming new alliances, treaties with foreign potentates, fitting out of ships, trading and negotiating, granting patents for land and lots, appointments,