[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 'tis for the purpose of inventing prosecutions. These people then would fain live subject to no person's censure or discipline, which, however, they doubly require. The instance wherein the Director exercised and usurped Sovereign power, must be specified and proved. It, too, is in general terms. That the Colonists had need of the Directors is evident from the account books which will show that the Company supplied all freemen, some few excepted, with clothing, provisions and other articles for the construction of houses, at an advance of 50 per cent, on the just cost in Fatherland; which supplies have not yet been paid for; and people by their complaints would fain filch the country from the Company, and pay nothing. 'Tis ridiculous to accuse Director Kieft of saying that he was Sovereign like the Prince in Fatherland. But in regard to the refusal of appeal to Fatherland, it arose from the circumstance that the Island of the Manhatans was reserved, in the Exemptions, as the Capital of New Netherland, and that all the Colonies round about should bring their appeal to it, as the Supreme Court of that quarter. 'Tis to be, moreover, borne in mind that the Patroon of the Colonie Renselaerwyck causes all his tenants to sign, that they will not appeal to the Manhatans, in direct contravention of the Exemptions, by which the Colonists are bound to render to the Director and Council at the Manhatans an annual Report both of the Colony and of the Administration of Justice.