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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 188 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] If the Directors can now justify it to their own consciences, 'tis a wonder what they will then do with such certificates; and many other things of a similar character have occurred, but very secretly. At first, the Hon'''^ Director also began to condemn very severely the contraband trade, which indeed was a very commendable act, were the law passed and enforced; but he would himself do what he forbade to others, and