In like manner, the Incorporated West India Company shall allot to each Patroon twelve Black men and women out of the prizes in which Negroes shall be found, for the advancement of the Colonies in New Netherland.

300 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

The Incorporated West India Company undertakes to maintain the fort and stronghold on the Island of Manhatten, in good defence and garrison, and to allow the Patroons to enjoy peaceably and quietly these Exemptions, Privileges and Freedoms.

33.

All private and poor people (onvermogen personen) are excluded from these Exemptions Privileges and Freedoms, and are not alloveed to purchase any lands or grounds from the Sachems or Indians in New Netherland, but must repair under the jurisdiction of the respective Lords Patroons. Thus done and enacted.

/Subject for the Consideration of the Assembly of the XIX. 1636.

[ From the Original in tlie Eoyal Archives at the Hague: File, West Indie. ]

Points of Reference whereupon all the Chambers of the West India Company

are summoned to Amsterdam on the 1" of June, 1636, extracted so far as relate to the affairs of New Netherland. Exhibited 24"" May, 1636. 7"" Point. They shall also come prepared to resume and, if necessary, amend the order for the Director of New Netherland, Curasao, Cape de Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Wild Coast, Fernando Noroncho and the Colonies planted here and there, and for this purpose each in his place shall bring with him all books and papers for information thereon.