In case it should not suit the Company to send any ships, or in those going there should be no room ; then the said Patroons, after having communicated their intentions, and after having obtained consent from the Comi)any in writing, may send their own ships or vessels thither; jirovided that in going or coming they go not out of their ordinary course ; giving security to the Company for the same, and taking on board an assistant, to be victualled by the Patroons, and paid his monthly wages by the Company ; on pain, for doing the contrary, of forfeiting all the right and property they have obtained to the colonic.

"XII. Inasmuch as it is intended to people the island of the Manhattes first, all fruits and wares that are produced on the lands situate on the North River, and lying thereabout, shall, for the present, be brought there before they may be sent elsewhere; excepting such as are from their nature unnecessary there, or such as cannot, without great loss to the owner thereof, be brought there ; in which case the owners shall be obliged to give timely notice in writing of the difficulty attending the same, to the Company here, or the Commander and Council there, that the same may be remedied as the necessities thereof shall be found to require.

" XIII. All the Patroons of colonies in New Netherland, and of colonies on the Island of Manhattes, shall be at liberty to sail and traffic all along the coast from Florida to Terra Neuf,* provided that they do again return, with all such goods as they shall get in trade, to the Island of Manhattes, and pay five per cent, for recognition to the Company, in order, if possible, that after the necessary inventory of the goods shipped be taken, the same may be sent hither.