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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 234 (part 7)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] For which purpose the Director and Council shall be bound to call a meeting of the Patroons of Colonies, or their agents, and of the deputies of the Commonalty, to be held within the city of New Amsterdam for the purpose of nominating four qualified persons from whom two shall be selected who shall be thereunto qualified by their High Mightinesses and those of the West India Company. These two elected Councillors shall serve four consecutive years, but on the expiration of the aforesaid four years, one of the two may by lot continue two years more and the other retire in order to present two others in future, biennially, by a new nomination, in manner as aforesaid. / 13. The Advocate-fiscal shall haveboth seat and vote in said Council, in matters not appertaining to his office. 14. Petrus Stuyvesant, the present Director, shall be instructed to return home and report. 15. And a suitable person conversant with Agricultural matters and the nature of soils, shall be forthwith dispatched and sent by the first opportunity to New Netherland to take charge of the lands situated on both sides of the Great North river, extending southerly to the South river, and northerly to the Fresh river, with instruction based on the Considerations exhibited conjointly by the Directors and the Delegates from New Netherland. IG. On the increase of the population and the augmentation of the inhabitants, a Court of Justice shall be established in the province. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 391 17.