I and 12"" articles of the general Instruction, as far as I was refer to the answer to the G"' employed, whether in visiting the ships arriving from Patria and returning thither, I have done my duty. But divers ships, such as the Si. Bcninjo, the hide prize, the Vakkcnier, were unloaded without me, the Director employing as Inspector, Paulus Leendertsen, late naval officer, whom he heretofore pronounced to bean open robber, and who is now one of his Select

men ; the Director retained the invoices, as Paulus Leendersen also did in the case of the prize at Cracos, without my knowledge. The Director and Paulus Leendersen, obtaining goods from Holland by the Vakkcnier above named ; these must not be put in the store, but be brought

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 507 to their houses without examination. Neither was I informed of the receipt of the duties on the returns of the beavers, &c., the lists of which I could never lay an eye on ; this was attended to by Jacob Kipp, a clerk, and others who had the receipt thereof, and were appointed to that duty by the Director on his own authority. Although I could not get a sight of their High Mightinesses' and the Hon''''' Company's ordinances, resolutions, instructions and commands, I have, nevertheless performed my duty as well as possible and as well as I knew how, according to written laws; but to no purpose as regards those whom the Director favored or hated. On the smallest pretext, the latter must suffer, as the old Select men who were dismissed by the Director, are daily obliged to feel.