recognized, which only seldom happened, his Honor was pleased frequently to burst into a violent rage both against the Deputy and ine, if we in our advice did not fall in with his humor, scolding and berating us in open Court, in the hearing of all the contending parties and applicants both within and without the Council Chamber, as rogues and robbers of the Hon'''' Company, etc., threatening to beat and break us. And this we could not prevent, notwithstanding the many protests we made against such mode of proceeding, severii! of which his Honor forbade the Secretary at the meeting to enter in the Register, and of some that were recorded we could rarely obtain extract or copies; his Honor always said he would vindicate everything in Holland. 2.

With this understanding, however, that in all cases in which the Advocate Fiscal shall be obliged to proceed as conservator of the rights of the Supreme Authority, or of the Company, be the same Civil or Criminal, the Military Commandant shall sit in his stead, and if the charge be criminal, two capable persons shall moreover be adjoined from the Commonalty of that district where the crime or act was committed.

The Commander of the Soldiers, who is an Englishman named Brian Nuton and understands little or no Dutch, who can when necessary sign his name, receives his wages and support at the Director's hands having no other means of livelihood, hath continual seal and

496 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. vote in tlie Council. Also a Frencliman named La Montagne who is burdened with a large family and is greatly in want of provisions; who is indebted several thousand guilders to the Company and derives his support from the Director. In place of two capable persons to be adjoined in criminal cases from the Commonalty of the District or Colonie where the crime or act is committed, which God be praised was of rare occurrence, the Director keeps these two persons at the expense of the Company and with them and the Minister Megapolensis' and as many other private persons as he approves and expect his favor, deliberates, resolves and dispatches business all in the name of the Director and Council they, especially Montagne ;