[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Sheriff,2 two Burgomasters and five Schepens, from all of whose judgments an appeal shall lie to the Supreme Council, where definite judgment shall be decreed. " In the Election of the aforesaid persons every attention must be paid to honest and respectable individuals who we hope can be found among the Burghers; and especially do we wish that those promoted thereto be, as much as possible, persons of this Nation, who we suppose will give the most satisfaction to the Burghers and Inhabitants. 1 The above "order" will be found entire in O'Callaghan's Hist, of N. Netherland. Vol. 2. p. 132, but so much of it only is given here as applies to the first establishment of a Municipal form of government, in the present city of New York. 2 In a Duplicate of the above Despatch, the words "een Schout" (a Sheriff,) are crossed over with ink, tho' not of the tame color as that in which the original wag written. New Amsterdam did not have a City Sheriff until 1660. 288 PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. INSTRUCTION FOR THE SHERIFF OF NEW AMSTERDAM. [ Dutch Records; Letter V. 1652—1663. ] 1.