[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] amount to between 60,000 and 70,000 guilders. And it is very probable that the a°boui Sm"tlv\. „,.,.., II, on" Builders. lis debts against it are somewhat more. But laying this aside, we shall turn our debts ihere lo some-°./ □ ^ ^ (Ijj^g more. attention to the public property, and see how the money has from time to time been employed according to the placards. If we are correctly informed, and have fully investigated and examined all these, we cannot ascertain or find that any thing — we say any thing — big or little, worth mentioning, was done, built or constructed, during Director Kieft's administration, in which the people were ^,e"i',«ipie''i'n"Kieiv8 concerned or had any interest, except the Church, of which we have already """'■ spoken. Yea, so much negligence and carelessness prevailed in the matter, that nothing was proposed, undertaken or done with even an ostensible appearance of 302 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. satisfying the people; on the contrary, whatever (32) was contributed by the Commonalty was absorbed among the Company's property; and the effects and The public revenue means Bven of the latter, both in one place and the other, have been squandered