All those who will be inclined to go thither, to inhabit the country or to trade, shall severally declare under their signatures, that they will voluntarily submit to these regulations, and to the orders of the Company, and shall allow all questions and differences there arising, to be decided by the ordinary courts of justice, which shall be established in that country, and freely suffer there the execution of the sentences and verdicts, without any further opposition. And shall ])ay for passage and board in the state-room, one guilder, in the cabin twelve stuivers, and between decks, eight stuivers, per diem." '

The effect of thus throwing open to the world the trade of New Netherland, was to increase at once its population, and the development of the agricultural capacity of the country. Capital was attracted, colonists came over from Holland, and Patroonships and individual grants of lands were freely taken up. Englishmen and their families driven from New England by Puritan persecution, -- a persecution un- ])aralleled in North America save by that inflicted by ihe Spaniards in Mexico, fled to the Dutch province, became subjects of the New Netherland government, and as grantees of its lands took the oaihs of allegiance to the West India Company and to the States-General of Holland.

The old disputes between the Company and the Patroons as to their respective rights, though modified, still continued. At last in January, 1G40, the matter was taken up by the States-General, the Assembly of the Nineteen, and the Patroons, with a determination to come to a final settlement of the whole subject. Debates, discussions, and negotiations, were actively continued till July of the s;ime year, with the result, that an entirely new charter of " Freedoms and Exemptions" was framed which met the assent of all parties.