Surveyors of buildings were appointed to regulate the location and structure of new houses.
The embarrassments which surrounded the governor were so great that he found it necessary to support his authority by calling public opinion to his aid.

"Necessity," writes Brodhead, "produced concession and prerogative yielded to popular rights.

The Council recommended that the principle of representation should be conceded to the people.
Stuyvesant consented." An election was ordered and eighteen "of the most notable, reasonable, honest and respectable persons" in the colony were chosen, from whom the governor was to select nine persons as a sort of privy council.

It is said that Stuyvesant was very reluctant to yield at all to the people, and that he very jealously guarded the concessions to which he was constrained to assent.

By this measure popular rights gained largely.