I hope this will not bee expected from mee, which if due should have beene

3. That the present owners of the houses, lands and other effects of private persons confiscated during the war, may be maintained in their possession .

4. That the Inhabitants of the Dutch Nation may be allowed to retaiii their customary Church privileges in Divine Service and Chui-ch discipline besides their Fathers' laws & customs in the division of their Inheritances.

5. That tliey may be excused from Impressment, if not wholly at least against their own Nation.

6. That each Congregation whether Lutherans or others may support their own Poor.

7. That all Publick houses may continue according to the Customs now existing.

8. That the West India Company's creditors in this Country may be paid from their property and outstanding debts here.

9. That the City Tapsters Excise may remain for the benefit of the city until the

RESTORATION OF NEW-YORK TO THE ENGLISH.

effected by my Predecessors & is not in my power.

To the 10th. This seemes to relate to the first, However I have liis Royall Highnesse particular Orders & llegulacon for tlie Cus tomes in every particular, from which I may not vary.

debts of

before my Administration, sliull

be paid, as was agreed unto by

tlie Capitulation in the Year

1664.

10. Whereas the Inhabitants of tliis Province advanced some monies by form of a Loan for the fortification of this City, for the repayment of wliic.i money a small Impost was laid on exported Beavers and peltries and imported Indian goods, that the same Impost may stand good until the said expended monies sliall be paid.