HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: III. 219 And when deliberating on future important affiiirs, the aforesaid nineteen Directors could be Bummoned to the Hague, in order provisionally for one, two or three years to do the business which the Assembly of the Nineteen is wont to transact. The reduction of the Company's foreign expenses in Brazil and other countries, could be effected according as your High Mightinesses shall resolve upon the preceding advice of these Accountants and Directors, and hereunto appertains the plan, No. 10, laid by the Chamber of Accounts in June, 1G4-5, before the Assembly of the Nineteen at Amsterdam. It appears, therefrom, that the Company at home and abroad might save yearly Ten tons of Gold. And in the matter of the reduction of unnecessary foreign expenses, the plan is important which Director Morthamer submitted at the request of your High Mightinesses' Commissioners, whereby the Company could effect a yearly saving of ninety-nine thousand guilders by the discharge of useless servants in Brazil. The best and greatest oeconomy consists in rendering the Company's servants, high and low, accountable for their respective offices, so that they shall be bound to vindicate the same, and to send over to the Chamber of Accounts their written return within one month after the expiration of the year, to be examined, balanced and corrected, according to their respective commissions, for the settlement of the same ; which, up to the present time, has not been done either at home or abroad according to order. Thereby has the Company got into this desolate condition. 2° The second means is, that the Chambers be disposed to forthwith undertake their eighteen turns a year, according to the regulation of the 29"" April, 1G38, lying in your High Mightinesses' office, and send to Brazil the ships thereunto required ; and this in conformity to the agreement entered into between the Chambers, at the Hague, on the sixth July, 1647.