But in order to meet the expenses which the Company has to incur, for the support of the garrison and the other servants, it will be necessary to keep a sharp eye on the receipt of the duties, tolls and other dues, already imposed and yet to be imposed on the exported and imported goods. From which, we are of opinion, that the expenses to be incurred by the Company can be fully defrayed, with the hope of greater and more ample profit, by the increase of the population.

Estimate of the expenses which the Company would have to bear in New Netherland for the following persons to be rationed at their own expense.

1 Director, whose monthly salary should be fl. 250, to board himself, is yearly fl. 3,000 1 Second, and factor and receiver, at fl. 120 per month, as above, 1,440 1 Fiscal, (IL fl. 60 per month, as above 720 1 Secretary, who is also to keep the book of monthly wages, per month fl.60, 720 1 Commissary of the merchandise and store goods @. fl. 60 per month, 720 1 Assistant of the merchandise and store goods, @. fl. 2-5 per month, 300 1 Clergyman, (aX fl. 120 per month, 1,440 1 Schoolmaster, precentor and sexton, @, fl. 30, 360 1 Gunner, (|, 20, 240 1 Provost or Marshal, (S, fl. 15, 180

' Nearly south of the city of Pernambuco, between the river Bibiribe and the sea, is a small tongue of land on which stood a village called the Reciffe, where all goods were shipped and discharged. De Laef. Verliael van West Indien, 191.