[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 'Twould be a very strange thing if the officers of the country could not banish anybody from it, whilst the authorities of the Colonie Renselaers wyck, who are subordinate to the Company, absolutely banish whomsoever they please and the welfare of the Colonie requires to be excluded; And they do not allow any person to reside there except at their pleasure and upon certain conditions, some of which I submit here — First, No person up to the present time in the Colonie possesses a foot of land of his own, but is obliged to take all the land he cultivates upon a rent-lease; where a dwelling-house is built, he is obliged to pay some beavers annually as ground rent, which all the farmers likewise are required to pay; in return they are allowed free trade, as 'tis called. Where is there one inhabitant under the Company's jurisdiction charged or taxed in any way for either trade or lots? All lands are conveyed in fee subject to this clause — beraemt ofte nock te beramen. [Taxes imposed or to be hereafter imposed.] Francis Douthey, the English minister, hath never been employed by the Company, wherefore it owes him nothing; but his English congregation is bound to pay him, as can be proved in New Netherland. The Company has advanced to the said minister from time to time, in goods and necessaries, to the amount of about fl.UOO., as the colonial account books might show; this he has not yet paid, and he complains because he is unwilling to pay.