Council, for such municipal offices and places as this city and the villages respectively require for their government; that a Common Council ( Vroclschup) ought to be organized in this Cily to consist of a number of such persons as should be found in this place fit to fill such an office and to represent the body of the Commonalty; that in the villages which have hitherto had no Court of justice, one ought to be established, so that the people there maybe governed with greater order than heretofore, and each, on occurring occasions, be judged by his competent Judges; but all this is left to the discretion of the Lords Majors.

9.

Many orders or proclamations, etc. It is a certain and notorious fact, that many ordinances which concern the country at large are enacted without its knowledge; 'tis strange that Laws are made in a Free Land, binding on all and each of the inhabitants also without convoking such people to consider them, who belong to the country and are persons of considerable substance and must also help to protect and defend the province; that no person is admitted at the reading of the enacted orders, nor allowed copies thereof, though demanded, whereby we are utterly ignorant of our duty. This might easily be remedied were such Rules and ordinances brought and preserved in one place where we might be allowed duly to examine and read them. 10.

On the promises of Deeds, etc. These promised Deeds are refused to divers and many persons, notwithstanding repeated and earnest applications have been made for them, and they are still refused to the great discontent of those who would rather resolve to abandon their undertaken bouweries, than expend much labor and money on lands, the possession and propriety whereof cannot be established.