[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] In fine, it is so managed that a considerable sum was received in Director Kieft's time, as well from duties as from other sources which are estimated to amount, one year Kitft drew from ihe with another, to 16,000 guilders, exclusive of the customs paid in Fatherland, iM^io s^'W^r. a which must indeed be also collected from the poor people here, for the goods are afterwards sold, and are now intolerably dear. The revenue reached a somewhat higher sum in Director Stuyvesant's time. It is estimated that fuliy^SwiguiW"^ about 30,000 guilders are now drawn from the people, yearly, in duties, confiscations, excise, &c.; and yet it is not fair, that the more one has the more he will have. It was however, allowable, that as much as possible should be contributed when it was to be employed for the public good; and inasmuch as it i'!„"'prof;'id^d'''''n,,' was promised and enacted, in all placards, that all the money was to be employed lZ%t """monry for commendable and necessary public works, let us now examine for a moment for'" the" %TO°.'ie'a what laudable public works there are in this country, and what fruits all the