On the 27"" instant I represented to your High Mightinesses that my factor at Harlingea was called on by the Board of Admiralty at that place to pay the import duties (convoij) on the freights of the royal ships the Cahncrslcutcl and Fama, which I have already once paid to the West India Company at Amsterdam, as appears by the annexed authenticated copy, the original whereof remains with me; and as my said factor at Harlingen still remains impeded, and what has once been paid cannot again be craved, I have to request your High Mightinesses to be pleased to cause the said Board of Admiralty at Harlingen to be forthwith notified to desist from this or farther pretences, and not to give my factor any further trouble or inconvenience in this matter. Which expecting, I wish God Almighty to grant you a long and prosperous reign, remaining. High and Mighty Lords, Your High Mightinesses' affectionate The Hague, (Signed) Peter Spieringh Silvercroon, 31'' of July, 1045. hereditary proprietor of North Holm.

Copy. A-ppendix. Received 3V* of Jtdy, 16i5.

5"" of July, 1645, at Amsterdam.

Sieur Lucas Arentsz, Agent of Resident Spierinck, received here the following parcels of Tobacco and Beavers which were brought in the subjoined two Swedish ships from the limits of the Incorporated West India Company in those countries, to wit:

In the Ship the Fame. 10 cases containing 2137 piecesof Beavers, which valued at 7 guilders, amount to, fl. 14,959

Whereof the import duty is 2 stivers on every six guilders' value,. Item, 105 tubs of leaf tobacco, weighing, together, gross 2S,319 lbs.