 The council sought to dissuade Kieft from war, and they began to advise him on other matters, using the new Council to carry the interests of colonists to the corporate rulers.They called for establishing a permanent representative body to manage local affairs, and Kieft responded by dissolving the Council and issuing a decree forbidding them to meet or assemble.Kieft sent a punitive expedition to attack the village of the Indian who had murdered Swits, but the militia got lost.