Points extracted from the petition of Remarks by the Chamber at Amsterdam the Patroon and co-directors of the on the anne.'ied Points. Colonie Renselaers-Wyck.

First. Coming into the Colonie of Renselaers Directors are truly ignorant of the place Wyck aforesaid, and there causing the Peti- where the Petitioners' flag was pulled down, tioners' flag to be hauled down in opposition and consequently cannot furnish any informato the will and protest of their officers. tion on this point, unless on further advice.

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Secondly. Publishing there, by placard, that This placard is published at the place where timber might be cut in, and removed from, the Company exercises jurisdiction, and the the Petitioners' woods, without the knowledge woods from which the timber was to betaken, of the Petitioners or their officers, or applying are so defined that no person can be in any to them on the subject. wise injured by removing such timber; also, no one hath legally any pretention thereupon. 3.

Thirdly. Publishing, as aforesaid, that the The title of Fort Orange existed in the Comright of jurisdiction and of soil appertained to pany long before the Colonie Uenselaersthe aforesaid Company to the extent of one Wyck was ever granted, and the limits of the

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VII. 523 hundred and fifty rods around the aforesaid aforesaid Colonie were corisequently computed trading house causing the same to be staked above and below the fort. The Petitioners off by the Petitioners' own inhabitants whom were afterwards prfcrtrio allowed to come under they conveyed over to the aforesaid Colonie at the cannon of the fort, in order to be secure