Kegniation reapect- ^^w Netheriand Can never be a source of profit for the Company, until the '" ^"'^ Kfiheriand' population from our country be encouraged more than it has hitherto been, which can be effected by allowing them, in addition to their present privilege, to export their fish, flourand produce, the growth of that couutry and no other, to Brazil, in private or the Company's ships, under the supervision of a commissary, to be placed by the Company on board the ships, on the usual Brazilian duty payable at the Reciff to those of the Company who are to be ordered to allow the said goods to be disposed of there, and in return to export, at certain duty, from Brazil to New Netheriand and not elsewhere, as much merchandise, such as Slaves, by direction of the government, so that the sugar trade may not, by that means, be diverted, it being well understood that in loading and unloading, they shall be bound to bring the goods to the Company's store.

Report on the Affairs of the West India Company.

[ From Ihe Register of West India Affairs, 1633--1651, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Summary Report of what has been done for the improvement of the declining affairs of the West India Company in January 1648.

Folio 815. Messrs. van der Capellen tho Ryssel, Beveren, Bruininx, Vett, van der Hoolck, d'r?.s"of"''the''Ve!i Audree, appointed in the place of Mr. Houbois, van der Eyben, ompany. Coui missiouers on the Redress of the declining affairs of the West India Company, have reported in virtue of, and pursuant to your High Mightinesses' resolution of the SS* March 1647, adopted before granting the Charter of the West India Company, and made on your High Mightinesses' letters to the respective Chambers dated W December 1647, to send their respective deputies to the Hague by the 7"" January, in order to make a beginning of the aforesaid Redress ;