tobacco or cotton, and all other wares and merchandises, the growth of the aforesaid limits, but it is, also, designed to commit offensively and defensively, every hostility and damage on the King of Castile's subjects, they shall be also obliged to take with them a commission from his Highness the Lord Prince of Orange, as Captain Admiral General together with the permit of the General Incorporated West India Company, and for further security of their precise observance of the tenor of the obtained commission and of this regulation, they shall be bound, in addition to the obligation stated in the preceding article, to enter sufficient bail at the Chamber where they will receive the permit in the prescribed form, on pain, if found neglecting so to do, of being debarred from all license, in the same manner as if none had ever been granted them, and of being subject to the fine and forfeit hereinbefore mentioned.

3.

And the aforesaid ships shall be bound to take on board one Supercargo to whom, pursuant XIX. adopted the 4 October 1643, to the resolution of the shall be given instruction and commission at the Chamber where the aforesaid ships who shall have his berth and table in the cabin, at the expense of the ship and her owners, his monthly wages being

224 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. paid by the Company, and the aforesaid Supercargo shall be treated with due respect and propriety as well by the skippers as their officers and crew; and if any ill treat him in any wise either by word or deed, the skippers and their officers promise to be aiding unto him for his protection. 4.