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But any party feeling himself aggrieved may appeal to the Di- 

 rector General and Council of New Netherland, according to the 

 custom here, from all judgments exceeding Fifty guilders, pro- 

 nounced by said Commissaries. 



And said Commissaries are hereby specially commissioned and 

 authorized to enact proper Ordinances that the Cornfields and 

 Gardens be carefully fenced, kept inclosed, and the broken fences 

 properly repaired. They hereby command all inhabitants of the 

 aforesaid Village who already are there, or who will hereafter 

 come thither, to respect and acknowledge the aforesaid Commis- 

 saries for such as they are hereby qualified, and all that, until it 

 be otherwise ordained by the Director General and Council afore- 

 said. 



Thus done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as 



above. 



Note: The above court was composed of two Magistrates until 14th 

 Feb. 1674 when two others were added making the number of Magistrates 

 four. Tr." (O'Callaghan Laws and Ord. 458. Albany 1868.) 



59- General Provincial Assembly held at New Amsterdam on the 

 loth of April 1664 to consider the state of the Province. Staten 

 Island was represented by David de Marest, and Pierre Billou. 

 (Brodhead i: 728; New Amsterdam Records 5: 429-431, 450; 

 Albany Rec. 18: 237; 22: 78-90, 105, 106, 145-182; O'Callaghan 

 Hist. 2: 505-508.) 



60. August 1 8th, 1664. Block house on Staten Island, near the 

 Narrows, was seized by the British, and on August 29th New 

 Netherland was surrendered by Stuyvesant to the English under 

 Nicolls. (Brodhead Hist, i : 738 ; 2 : 24-37 ; Albany Records 18 : 

 323, 324, 326; Col. Doc. 2 : 250-253, 414, 415, 419-423, 429-447-) 



61. 1666. Extract from answer of Hon. Peter Stuyvesant to the 

 Observations of the West India Co. on his Report on the Sur- 

 render of New Netherland, 1666. Referring to Staten Island he 

 says : 



" It is inhabited only on the South side, behind the hill, and con- 

 sequently out of sight of the fort, by 10 @ 12 men but so and so 

 able to bear arms, who, in order to be protected against a sudden 

 attack of the Savages, did, about a year ago, erect a small slight 

 wooden Blockhouse, about 18 @ 20 feet square, in the center of 



