[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Is it not monopoly in the Director to send horses by Arent van Curler from New Netherland to Barbadoes in the ship denJongen Prins van Dennemarquen, to be sold there, which were required 456 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. in New Netherland for the cultivation of the soil and for the benefit and advantage of the Hon'"'' Company's domain in these parts? Is it not monopoly and are they not fraudulent papers, when the Director grants lands (mostly to the English,) and issues patents thereof in the name of the Director and Council, as if the Fiscal and I had voted for them, when we, nevertheless, had no knowledge of them ? Is it not monopoly and are they not private conventicles, when postils, judgments and sentences are pronounced in the name of the Director and Council, unknown to me and the Fiscal? Is it not monopoly in the Director to distribute and absolutely grant away in fee to individuals, lands and lots acquired at great cost by the Hon*"'' Company, and among the rest