liberty to touch at any trading places, on pain of forfeiture of ship and goods, should they act otherwise. Finally, leaving the remaining points as they are, also the instruction to be amplified by new additions of what this Assembly may determine further to resolve on the suggestion of Director Stuyvesant.

Monday, IG"" of October, 1645. The presiding Chamber of Zealand, with General Board of Accounts, is those of the deputed and authorized to execute the resolution adopted by this Assembly, so far as authorized thereunto by instruction.

2'he Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company to the States General. [ From Ihe Original in Ihe Eoyal Archives at tlie Hague ; File, West Indie. ]

High and Mighty Lords. We have duly received you High Mightinesses' postile, of the IS"" of April last, inscribed on the margin of a certain petition presented to your High Mightinesses in the name, and on the behalf, of Simon Janssen, of Durgerdam, late skipper of the ship named St. Peter, acting as agent for hislate owners the aforesaid postile importing, that we should also communicate ;

our remarks on the aforesaid petitioner's request presented to your High Mightinesses on the 3'<' of November, of the past year, and sent to the Assembly of the XIX., in Zealand.

174 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. It will serve foi; fulfillment of said order, that a written agreement and contract was made, on the IS"* of August, of the year 1644, with the aforesaid Simon Janssen, that he should be at liberty to sail with the aforesaid ship St. Peter, from this city, Amsterdam, to New Netherland, situate within the limits of our Charter; on condition that he, before loading his goods, should be bound to bring the same into the Company's warehouses, in order to be conveyed on board, when inspected and stamped with the Company's mark; and to cause to be paid thereon the duty of sixteen per cent, in addition to the permits and convoys; also, that he should not, whilst on the way between this city and the fort Manhattes, in New Netherland, touch at any other places; but be obligated to discharge his laden merchandise at, and as far as possible to be of service to, the aforesaid fort; all on pain of forfeiting the aforesaid ship and property; and although he, Simon Janssen, ought accordingly to have fulfilled the aforesaid contract according to its tenor, and to regulate himself in conformity to its contents,