Order and Regulation of the General Incorporated West India Company, made at the Assembly of the XIX., with the approbation of the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands, by and pursuant to which each and every of the inhabitants of the United Provinces shall be at liberty to trade to certain parts hereinafter mentioned, within the limits of the above named Company's charter, whether to attack or injure the enemy, or to export salt, timber, tobacco, cotton, &c., as well as other wares or merchandises, the growth thereof.

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folio 866. First, we hereby declare that we annul and quash all former orders and wlJt inTa compa- rcgulatious, by and pursuant to which all ships in the respective provinces, ^"'"^ of the trade. whether armed or unarmed, offensive or defensive, or engaged in private trade,

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carrying timber, salt, tobacco, cotton or other fruits and wares, the growth thereof, were empowered to resort to certain parts within the charter of the West India Company, howsoever, and at whatever time they might have been enacted, published and executed and do enact, ;

decree and ordain anew, that the ships of the aforesaid inhabitants shall be at liberty henceforth to sail in the West Indies, to wit, from the River Oronoco, westward along the coast of Paria, Cumana, Venezuela, Carthagena, Porto Bello, Honduras, Campeachy, the Gulf of Mexico and the coast of Florida also, between and around all the Islands situate within the ;

said district, even to Curasao, Buenaire and Aruba, without being at liberty to go further eastward on the Wild Coast, much less to the Amasons or Maraigum, nor more northerly than Cape Florida, nor for any cause or in any wise, to be at liberty to resort to the Virginias»