People enjoyed the hospitality of the inn on their way to and from Broiixside, and their cattle were safely ferried across at the following rates: " For one person, four stivers, silver money; for two, three or four, each three stivers, silver money ; for one beast, one shilling; and for more than one, each ten stivers silver." Riker locates the inn and ferry at the north side of One Hundred and Twenty-third Street, three hundred feet west of First Avenue. It would seem that the worthj' inn-keeper and ferry-master was not always observant of the excise laws. He thought that as he wsis put to some expense pro bono publico in keeping up the ferry, he should not pay the excise fees, and the mayor and alderman tiiouglit there was sufficient equity in his claim, for, on the 3d of July, 1667, an agreement was made between them tiiat he should have the ferry for five years, provided he keep a convenient house and lodging for passengers. He was also given about an acre on Bronxside, and a place to build a house on. At what point this was located the present historian can not decide. At the end of five years the ferry was to be farmed out, but during that time he was to pay nothing for it, and in case the ferry should be let to another, the house was to be valued as it stood, and Verveelen was to be paid for it. Then the rates of ferriage were fixed thus : For every passenger, two pence silver or six pence wampum ; for every ox or cow that shall be brought into the ferry-boat, eight pence, or twentyfour stivers; cattle under a year old, six pence or eighteen stivei-s wampum ; " all cattle that are sivum over " paid but half-price.