4| Another memorial, which up
alto a generation ago had proved
| equally lasting, was the so-called
@| Stuyvesant Pear Tree, which
"| stood surrounded by an_ iron
fence at Thirteenth street and
Third avenue.

Governor Niccolls immedi-
ately set about reconstructing
the civil government of the city,
replacing the former Burgo-
masters and Schepens by a
Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs,
Was was the English form.

The administration was peace-
| fully conducted in the main, Nic-
Hi colls meeting with but little oppo-
sition from the Dutch residents,
who seemed ready to fall in with
the affairs of the new régime.