The Honorable, the Director General, having submitted at the meeting to the Hon*"'' the Councillors and the summoned Select men, the frequent misbehaviors and connivances of Hendrick van Dyck, to this date Fiscal of New Netherland, wherefore the said Lord General represents it to be for the advantage of his Lords Superiors, and for the public peace and good, to supersede the said person from his office and quality, and to audit his account, which is this day done in presence of the Hon'''' Councillors, and undersigned invited Select men. Wherefore, the

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VI. 511 aforesaid Hendrick van Dyck is dismissed from his office and trust, and notified by the Hon'"'' Director General in the Assembly, not to trouble himself henceforward in such capacity. Thus done in the Assembly, present La Montagne, Brian Nuton, David Provoost, Willem Beeckman, and Paulus Leendersen van den Grift, this 28"" March, 1652. In Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland. Was signed. By order of the Hon'''' the Director, Cornells van Tienhoven, Secretary.

The Director here asserts my misbehavior so confidently as if it were not to be gainsaid. I have demanded declaration thereof from his Select men, who by their resolution of the 21" August, 1652, declare, that no complaints of misbehavior were ever made to them by the Commonalty, and that they, themselves, have nothing to say against me or my conversation. In respect to his accusation of connivance, it is still worse. His placards and ordinances, which he, himself, violates, he will have me enforce, without being willing to support me therein. His Honor deprives me of my office for the good of his Lords Superiors, and for the public peace and benefit, as he says : A?id on his own authority hath appointed and qualified, as Fiscal, Cornells van Tienhoven, tvho, as already stated, is a public perjurer, and a jicst to the country.