[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 495 Instruction of the Commissioners at the Assembly of the XIX. of the General Incorporated West India Company for tiie Director and Council of New Netherland, according to which they shall provisionally and until further order regulate themselves. I, as Fiscal, have never seen, nor been furnished with, nor had directly or indirectly, any communicatioa of, any further or other than this general provisional, and my own particular, Instruction. 1. The Supreme Council in the Countries of New Netherland shall consist of three persons, namely : The Director a« President, his Vice and the Fiscal, by whom all occurring affairs relating to police, justice, militia, the dignity and just rights of the Company, shall be administered and decided, each remaining bound, nevertheless, to vindicate his own Commission. The Supreme government in the Countries of New Netherland in all occurring cases is, and was undertaken and administered hy the Director alone, on his own authority, accordino-to his pleasure, in granting comtnissions, forming new alliances, treaties with foreign potentates, fitting out of ships, trading and negotiating, granting patents for land and lots, appointments, resolutions and other business, relating to my office of Fiscal, not acknowledging me therein except so far as he in such cases considered to suit his convenience, and craftily resolved, as I was aware, from particular motives.