The foul enclosures for swine bordered the thoroughfares.
A system of taxation upon both exports and imports was introduced, which speedily replenished the treasury.

Governor Stuyvesant was a professing christian, being a devout member of the Reformed Church of the fatherland.

He promptly transferred his relations to the church at fort Amsterdam.

He became an elder in the church, and conscious that the christian religion was the basis of all prosperity, one of his first acts was the adoption of measures for the completion of the church edifice.

Proprietors of vacant lots were ordered to fence them in and improve them.