Which aforesaid deputies shall have power to search any ship or ships entering any of the ports in this country, to place on board at least two trust-worthy persons as watchmen, so that the Company may not be defrauded on the way between the aforesaid ports and the destined places of unloading, and the skippers, officers or crew shall not embarrass the aforesaid watchmen either by word or deed, nor obstruct them in the proper discharge of their duty, under a penalty of ^50 flemish, to be received, one half by the officer of the place who shall levy execution, and the other half by the injured watchman, and the skipper shall be responsible for his men.

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And in order that each and every one shall receive information and notice hereof, we have resolved to cause the same to be notified by handbills affixed at every place interested therein, and to have the skippers, owners or freighters furnished, for their information, with a printed copy of this Regulation, signed by the Directors, together with the Company's permit and authority, at the Chamber, where the latter are obtained, receipt whereof the skippers, owners or freigliters shall acknowledge on the Bailbond, also under their signature.

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On the return of the ships from the voyage, the skipper, owner or freighter shall be hound to surrender the permit or authority obtained from the said Incorporated West India Company, together with the commission of his Highness, the Prince of Orange, if any he has had, back to the Chamber whence it was received within the space of six days, on pain, in case of failing herein, of paying a sum of three hundred guilders of XL. groots for the benefit of the poor.