Points on which all the Chambers of the West India Company are summoned to Amsterdam for the 21 February, 1643 ; extracted so far as they relate to the affairs of New Netherland. Read 2 February, 1643.

IS"" Point.

It being found that New Netherland hath been hitherto of great expense and small profit to the Company, and that the plan of opening the trade to said place, produces no true effect

136 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. according to the intent, inasmuch as many will go thither to trade without acquiring a domicile there and therefore, population scarcely increases there, whilst trade is seriously ruined. ;

Therefore, the members are recommended to consider whether the internal trade there ought not to be confined to the inhabitants of that country. And in order to induce a greater number to repair thither, and to encourage the people there to the culture of the soil, grain and the fisheries, whether it would not be well to open to the inhabitants who have a permanent domicile, and oblige themselves to remain there, the trade from that country to Brazil, under proper orders and duties, for the benefit of the Company; and vice versa, that from Brazil back to New Netherland. 19. In like manner, as a supply not only of all sorts of animals and cattle, but especially of salt, isnecessary for that country; and the islands of Curasao, Bonaire, Aruba particularly, furnish no other supplies, the settlement and cultivation of said islands by private individuals, under conditions to be thereunto agreed on, shall also have to be considered; permitting the trade between them, New Netherland and Brazil, and vice versa as above, in the Company's unarmed ships. 20. Moreover, that all the Chambers that trade exclusively to one quarter or the other, shall bring the account thereof with them, in order to determine, after examination of the same, if it be expedient to continue that course, or to open the trade.