ral Contract the Agents Rjk^' van Eensselaer & Abel de WoUiY and said Dom^ agreed that his terra of Office shall commence on the day when Henry Bier went last year to sea, as Ins Reverence was then ready to leave ; his term commencing on the 1 5^^ August 168-2 k ending on the Ib^^ August 1686, but with the express condition that his salary shall not date earlier than the day his Reverence put to sea with Skipper Jan Gorter : And whereas we have been advised by letters from our correspondents that his Reverence is not wholly satisfied about his salary being in Beavers or Wheat knowing nothing about such tilings, and. imagines such is greatly to his prejudice, whereupon said Rensselaer & De Wolff have written to us in his behalf, requesting that the payment of his salary may be made as nearly as possible in Holland currency,

Therefore, their said Worships maturely considering the contribution as well as the clause in the aforesaid notarial contract, to the effect that should Dome Schaets die meanwhile, the aforesaid D^ DelHus should receive the same salary as D^ Schaets had &. enjoyed, allow Dom : Dellius aforesaid the sum of Three hundred pieces of Eight or one hundred and fifty Beavers being fl. 1200 in Beavers,, which is two hundi-ed guilders in Beavei-s more than Dom: Schaets ever had or received, as a testimony of their good disposition towards him and especially for his Teaching with which their Worships and the congregation declare themselves well satisfied, doubting not but his Reverence will be specially content, it being 300 gl. above the Notarial contract.