[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Hon*"'^ Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber, dated the S"" Septemb'' 1650. I have already addressed two letters to your Honors, but have not received any answer to them. At present, I write only this: — Here the law is violated.* Profit is loss; and public, is private property; resources are wasted and diverted without advantage to the Hon*"'* Company and the country; I cannot help it, as Director Stuyvesant says, 'tis none of my business; that he will answer for it all at Amsterdam. Extract of a letter from the Select men, dated 13"" Sept' 1650. We have described the sad condition of this Country in the accompanying letter to their High Mightinesses and their committee on the affairs of New Netherland. Things proceed daily, in truth, as related in the letter. We are obliged to listen every day to scoffs and sneers from many because their High Mightinesses have done nothing in the matter of the Redress, which several have flung so far off' that it could not come to life. Extract of the Journal kept by order of the Commonalty to which they refer in letters to us. 4 July, 1650. Friends report and complain that they have not only not been recognized by the Director and Council during the absence of the delegates, but that contumely and reproaches have been cast on them by the Director, from whom they were obliged also to listen to divers calumnies, insults and contumelious words; they also complain that the Director