Excerpt from Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821, Vol. 1 He states that people of property had now settled in New York, thatpasturage and orchards maintained, whereas before this period the emigrants were adventurers, who had brought in little, carried away much and thought nothing of the common good. Before the West India Company began to exercise the'arbitrary prerogatives granted by its articles of incorporation, the'settlements of New Netherland consisted merely of a few ...
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Excerpt from Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821, Vol. 1 He states that people of property had now settled in New York, thatpasturage and orchards maintained, whereas before this period the emigrants were adventurers, who had brought in little, carried away much and thought nothing of the common good. Before the West India Company began to exercise the'arbitrary prerogatives granted by its articles of incorporation, the'settlements of New Netherland consisted merely of a few trading posts, with surround ing forts that had been erected for their protection. Military as well as civil authority was vested in the commandant of these forts. As a creature of the States - general, the west india Company, the declared rival of the French for the Canadian fur trade, managed affairs 'in the colony with'an iron hand. Scant consideration was given the settler. The policy of the company was purely com mercial, and in the furtherance'of that policy the-powers of govern ment, executive, legislative and judicial, were delegated to a director general or a governor and his council; the latter consisting of an indefinite number of persons, generally not exceeding six, who were appointed by the governor. The official acts of the governor were subject to the approval of the company, and the company was subordinate to 'the States-general, who exercised general super vision and in whom was vested the ultimate sovereignty. The colonial government and colonial laws closely followed those of the fatherland, but an indulgence was conceded to a citizen across the sea that was withheld from the settler in the colony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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