[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 340 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. 14 We request that they declare what they understand by ecclesiastical property. 15 The Director hath not the administration of the money that was taken up on the plate; but Jacob Couwenhoven, who is one of the petitioners, hath kept account of it in his quality of churchwarden. 16. 'Tis acknowledged that the Company is indebted to the Deaconry, nine or ten hundred guilders, according to the tenor of the obligation thereof drawn up in New Netherland A" 1649. The first interest thereupon will fall due A" 1650. 17. The Company's circumstances admitted of the building neither of an hojspital nor orphan asylum, which are not very necessary there as yet. IS. Every one conversant with the Indians in, and around New Netherland, will be able to say, that it is morally impossible to convert the adults to the Christian faith. Besides, 'tis a Minister's business to apply himself to that, and the Director's duty to assist him therein. Chapter III. Article 19. The present Board of Directors seeks for proof as to who those are who have given orders to reckon half a fault for a whole one; they cannot believe that such order emanated from the Assembly (of the XIX.) 20. The Charter accorded by their High Mightinesses to the Company shows that the judgments of the Director and Council are final. 21. Respecting this article, we refer to the sentence. 22. This article we refer, as above, to the sentence. 23.