[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Wherefore, the Hon'''*' Petrus Stuyvesant, Director General, with the advice of h^s Council, administering justice in the name of the High and Mighty Lords States General, his Serene Highness the Lord Prince of Orange, and the Hon'''"' Directors of the General Incorporated West India Company, hath sentenced and condemned, as he doth hereby sentence and condemn, the aforesaid Cornells Melyn, to be banished for seven years from the district and jurisdiction of New Netherland, and also to depart by the first ship, revoking all previous granted benefits, actions and pretensions which he may have obtained, or yet claims from the Hon'"'" Directors; and, moreover, to pay a fine of three hundred Carolus guilders, to be applied, one-third for the Poor, one-third for the Fiscal, and one-third for the Church; dismissing the Fiscal's further demand. Thus done and enacted at the Assembly, in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland, the 25th July, A" 1647. (Signed) P. Stuyvesant, L. van Dincklage, Brian Neuton, Paulus Leendertsen van der Grift, and Jan Claessen Bol. After having been collated, this is found to agree with its original, the 16"" of August, 1649, by me, in the absence of the Secretary. (Signed) Jacob Kieft, Clerk. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 351 No. 4. Mandamus in case of the Appeal of Messrs. Ciiyler and Meli/n. [ Omitted; being already printed, supra, p. 250.