were such, that the Commander and Council for good reasons, should order otherwise; always observing that the first occupiers are not to be prejudiced in the right they have obtained, other than, unless the service of the Company should require it, for the building of fortifications, or something of that sort ; remaining, moreover the command of each bay, liver, or island, of the first settled colonic, under the supreme jurisdiction of their High Mightinesses the States-General, and the company ; but that on the next colonies being settled on the same river or island, they may, in conjunction with the first, appoint one or more council, in order to consider what may be ne cessary for the prosperity of the colonies on t'.ie said river and island.

" VI. They shall forever possess and enjoy all the lands lying within the aforesaid limits, together with the fruits, rights, minerals, rivers and fountains thereof; as also the chief command and lower jurisdictions,' fishing, fowling, and grinding, to the exclusion of all others, to be holden from the company as a perpetual inheritance, without it ever devolving again to the Company, and in case it should devolve, to be redeemed and repossessed with twenty guilders per colonic, to be paid to this Company, at the chamber here, or to their Commander there, within a year and six weeks after the same occur, each at the chamber where he originally sailed from ; and further, no person, or persons, whatsoever, shall be privileged 1o fish and hunt but thePatroons and such as they shall permit; and in case anyone should in time prosper so much as to found one or more cities, he shall have power and authority to establish oflicers and magistrates there, and to make use of the title of his colonie according to his pleasure and the quality of the persons.