Total, fl. 7,304,000

Further, 5 ships and 3 yachts which your High Mightinesses promised to indemnify the Company for in guns, powder, and other munitions of war ; as these are still wanting to complete the subsidy promised by the 40"" article of the Charter, and by divers acknowledgments made by your High Mightinesses, as to be seen in resolutions. It remains to be stated, that the valuation of the ships and necessaries of war hereinbefore entered in gross, is not taken at the highest value, but will doubtless bring more when minutely reexamined. Then, as to what relates to the state of the trade and the pay of shareholders, they think they are sufficiently well informed thereof.

N. B. When the Assembly of the XIX. resolved to send the expedition under Admiral Willekens, the capital of the shareholders of all the chambers, added together, amounted to, fl, 4,300,000 To which is added what your High Mightinesses promise by the Charter, 1,000,000

In all, fl. 6,300,000

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : I. 37 Thus, the Company's capital is greater at tliis time, by two millions, than it was at that period; besides, experience has given it more knowledge as to the condition of the places

West Indies and tiie Brazils; what are useful or useless to the Company in that situate in the country; what can, and what cannot, be defended; all which is of great advantage to tlie Company and the country.

lie-solution of the States General appointing Deputies to the Assembly of the XIX. [ From the Origiual Register in the Royal ArcbiveB at the Hague. ]