[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] In the first place, the Sheriff shall, as the Director General and Council's guard ton of the law in the district of the city of New Amsterdam, preserve, protect and maintain, to 1.e best of his knowledge and ability, the preeminences and immunities of the privileged West India Company, in as far as these have been delegated by previous Instruction to the Board of Burgomasters and Sche-pens; without any dissimulation, or regard for any private favor or displeasure. 2. In the quality aforesaid, he shall convoke the meetings of Burgomasters and Schepens and pre-side thereat, also propose all matters which shall be brought there for deliberation, collect the Votes, and resolve according to the plurality thereof. 3. He shall, ex officio, prosecute all contraveners, defrauders and transgressors, of any Placards, Laws, Statutes and Ordinances which are already made and published or shall hereafter be enacted and made public, as far as those are amenable before the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, and with this understanding that, having entered his suit against the aforesaid Contraveners, he shall