sometimes summoned to the Council when occasions presented, to dispatch business with the Director General and Council, it is, in fact, rather to approve of his plans than to assist in consultation upon them ; for notwithstanding the Burgomasters and Schepens may dissent and differ from his opinion, the Director decides without them, declaring it must be so ; moreover, if any resolution be adopted with the consent of the Burgomasters and Schepens, 'tis changed and altered, without their knowledge, at the pleasure of the Director; and lastly, to show how great an appearance there Is of the establishment of an arbitrary government among us, 'tis considered sufficient that a Director, a fellow-subject of a Free State, though filling a high and honorable office, with arrogant words disclaims his fellow subjects who are assembled with his previous knowledge for the good of the country, and are thereunto convoked beforehand by the lawful Rulers of the first and most important City in this country, and present an humble Remonstrance, declares their Assembly illegal, protests against it, forbids the Members and Deputies thereof to meet again, orders and commands them to disperse forthwith on pain of his highest displeasure and arbitrary punishment, as if they were, by their acts, guilty of resisting authority and had conspired to revolutionize the State and reduce it under another Ruler and government. 5.

Under pretext that they have not been paid for their Lands That such are the complaints :

and threats of the Indians is notorious, and divers persons have felt the effects thereof, in the loss of their lives; and as the present Director, as well as his predecessors, hath purchased divers lands from the Natives, as these daily pretend, but have never paid for them as yet, the consequence is, that discontent is excited among the Indians and a thirst for vengeance, which they wreak when opportunity offers. 6.