Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 133
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. without any one's consent, to visit, on their arrival, all sliips, yachts and sloops, coming here from sea, vrhether they be Dutch, English or French, &c., after the fiscal shall have been on board, according to the custom in Holland. 3. Also, that the Council of New Netherland shall from this time be rendered complete in members, especially as tiie council of a small village in Fatherland consists of five @^ seven Schepens; also, that from now henceforth the Director and Council do not try any criminals unless five councillors be present, inasmuch as the Commonalty talk considerably about it. Also if your Honors please to choose four persons who shall have access to the Council here, as your Honors formerly proposed, we