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. They forbid their Colonists to pay their debts to those of the aforesaid Fort. The prohibit appeals from judgments above 50 guilders, which are, therefore, appealable. They refuse extracts of their proceedings and judgments. Likewise, they will not permit any benefit to accrue from any writs of appeal, which are now and then granted, nor suffer the Director and Council's proclamations to be published and posted, but forcibly snatch them out of the marshals' hands and tear off the seals. And in case the aforesaid writs or other summons are executed and served by aid of the Company's power, the summoned parties are incited not to appear. The oath which the Colonists are obliged to take, is in some points seditious and mutinous, and acknowledges neither their High Mightinesses nor the Company. Moreover, those of the Colonie have never made a report of the condition of their circumstances, as they, nevertheless, are obliged, annually, to do. In like manner, they have never communicated the instructions drawn up by the Patroon and co-directors on the subject of the government of the Colonie; whence has arisen.