Those of the Colonie aforesaid have endeavored, against all law and contrary to the good intention of the Company, to establish a monopoly of the trade throughout the entire North river, both within and without their limits, and for that purpose obstruct and prevent other individuals engaged in the trade. They caused their people to promise not to permit any ship or vessel to sail by or pass a certain house called Renselaers Steyn, but to bring them all to. And with this view claiming certain unfounded staple-right. In like manner, they would extort from divers private persons a duty of 7 stivers on each beaver, and five per cent on other goods, making use, in support of this and other claims, of some guns and firing with them througii the sails of passing craft. Those of the Colonie have tried by indirect and undue means to deprive the Company of Fort Orange, and afterwards to concede and build on the lots situate thereabout, to the prejudice of the aforesaid fort, contrary to notice and protests. They have presumed to give private persons commissions to trade to the coast of Florida. They have enacted and published divers ordinances not only without the knowledge and communication of the Company, but even to the direct prejudice of its service: among the rest -- That none shall be at liberty to remove, under the Company from the Colonie, under pain of corporal punishment, forfeiture of goods, and to be banished as perjurers. They forbid, even on pain of corporal punishment, any wood to be cut or hauled for those of Fort Orange, and a certain man named Claes Jansen of Boeckhoven was by great favor amerced in a fine of 50 guilders solely because he had carted some firewood for one Lambert van Valckenburg, an inhabitant of the aforesaid Fort.