ISO 1 Commander, (a. fl. 60 per month, 720 1 Ensign, (a. fl. 4-5 -540

2 Serjeants, (3. fl. 2-5 each, 600 2 Corporals, (a. fl. IS each 432 1 Drummer, (S. fl. 13, 156 4 Cadets, (a. fl- 15 each, 720 40 Soldiers, (a^ fl. 13 each, 6,240 1 Surgeon for the soldiers, (a, fl. 25 300 1 .Skipper on tlie sloop, (1. fl. 25, 300 4 Matrosses, (a. fl. 13 per month each, 624 1 Boy, d- fl. 9 per month, lOS

69 persons, amount yearly to, fl. 20,040

The mills there must be leased. These officers and servants would be sufficient for the business; and carpenters, masons, smiths and such like ought all to be discharged, and left to work for whomsoever will pav them.

Tie States General to the A-ssemlly of the XIX. r From Uie SCnnle to Ihe Eoyil ArchiTes at the Hagne Tae, WVji Indit. ] :

To the Assembly of the XIX. of the West India Company, the 21^ of April, 1645.

The States, etc. Two 5»e.iiah swpe. The representations and complaint to us of 3/r. Spieringh iho Norsholm, the Queen of Sweden's resident here, relative to your proceedings in the matter of interfering with the cargo of the Royal ships the Calmer sleutd and Fuma, coming from Nora Sutcia, a district in the possession of her Royal Majesty, which vessels ran in here and broke bulk, you will be able to see from the annexed papers, copies of the said Mr. Spieringh's memorial and of the pieces thereunto appended, this day presented to us, which we have hereby resolved to send to you, desiring and requesting that the said laden goods and merchandise of the aforesaid two ships, may be discharged without making any further difficulty therein; our previously repeated resolution and order remaining in force and effect, respecting the eight per cent in question, hereinbefore imposed and exacted on all other such wares and merchandise for the benefit of your Company.