Dried Codfish, Campeachy wood, ten per centum. Brazil wood, seven and a half per cent. Lignum vitas, yellow wood, five per cent. On Sugars, one-third part shall be paid in kind. Imported tobacco shall not pay for convoy and recognition any more than sixty stivers per hundred pounds, from which one-fourth shall be deducted as allowance for stems, rottenness, dampness or other damage but the foreign tobacco of Marocive shall pay twenty guilders per ;

pound, with like allowance. 12.

On Salt no more shall be paid than is granted to all inhabitants of this province by agreement entered into (respecting the difference) between some cities of the North Quarter and the Company, with this understanding, that they shall pay on the Salt taken from places where the Company hath establishments, according to the order already made and hereafter to be concluded thereupon. 13.

Cotton, Hides, and all other wares and produce, the growth of the West Indies, eight per cent.

14.

And in order that the Inhabitants of these United Countries may be at liberty to trade and sail with strange and foreign ships, so shall, likewise, all strange and foreign vessels bringing into these countries Timber, Salt, Tobacco, and all other the aforesaid wares, fruits and merchandises from the West Indies or the Limits of the Charter granted to the Company, whether on their own account, on freight or on commission, convey and bring the same into Vol. L 29

226 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. the Company's stores in manner as in article ten is iiereinbefore recited, and accordingly