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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 298
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The Director allows his commissaries at Fort Orange to trade fusils and articles of contraband to the Indians, according to his Honor's acls.nowledgment and avowal in the Council, to wit, that he had Mess" the Directors' order thereunto, which Jacob van Schermerhorn and Jacob Ryntjes reproached him witli in full Court, in 1G49, when the Director on my demand, ex officio confiscated their goods. Whereunto his Honor answered, that he would do it, and will not allow them to do it. The Deputy observed that such did not accord with the General instruction. The Freemen have never had, to our knowledge, any guns out of the store, where indeed none are kept for them. 13.