For this and other reasons, and because the Director acted like a Sovereign, and would not recognize us in our quality as he ought, the Delegates from the Commonalty went to Holland ; after which, in the year 1651, the Director, also unknown to us, after he had, contrary to your High Mightinesses' letters, dismissed the Board of Select men, and installed others according to his whim and caprice, had the outside of the fort faced with flat sodsby the Company's Negroes. But as the soil is sandy and the foundation weak, the sods mostly sagged and fell to pieces, so that the inhabitants' swine damaged the fort, whereupon the Director ordered the soldiers to shoot whatever hogs came there. This was accordingly done a collection was afterwards made among the people on behalf of the ;

Director, and over eight hundred guilders contributed into the hands of Paulus Leendertsen, late naval officer, and now one of the Select men. After that, the Director through Willem Beeckman, also one of his Select men, borrowed firewood here and there, with which the fort is now set off. The Director has to answer for the distribution of the moneys drawn from the Commonalty for the purposes aforesaid, for the building of a school, etc. The fort hitherto is used to torment, rather than to defend several of the inhabitants and Colonists.

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The persons hereinafter specified, shall be maintained to garrison the fort, on such pay as shall be found most advantageous for the Company, and for greater security the Colonists and their domestics shall be holden, under certain penalties, to provide themselves with good muskets and other weapons for their own defence, so as to be able, in time of necessity, with the garrison to resist a general attack, without the Director, Colonists, or whosoever it may be, having the power to take into the pay of the Company any soldiers, be they few or many.