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.

Whereof deduct, for tare, being 69 lbs. per tub, 6,300 lbs.

Remains, 22,019 lbs.

160 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. And from the Ship the Calmersleulcl. 783 rolls, 53,100 lbs.

For sticks off, estimated at 6 pounds per roll, 4,698 lbs.

nett, 48,402 lbs.

Total, 70,421 lbs.

Whereof the customs amount to 1^ stiv. per pound, fi. 4,401 6

fl. 4,650 12

Thus done, counted and settled with Sieur Lucas Arentsz, above named, in the presence of and before the undersigned Directors of the Chamber at Amsterdam and North quarter in Amsterdam, the 5"" of July, of the year 1645. (Signed) Marcus de Vogelaar, Flooris Huych, Lucas Arentsz.

The four thousand six hundred and fifty guilders twelve stivers, contained in the present

account, are received by us undersigned in our aforementioned quality for the said West India Company from the hands of Sieur Lucas Arentsz, aforesaid, in the name as above; promising to guarantee and release him herein from all demands under bond of the property and effects of the aforesaid Company. In witness whereof is this signed, in Amsterdam, the 5"" day of July, 1645, and was subscribed, Marcus Vogelaar, Flooris Huych.