In order, however, to afford some opportunity for such action, these following points were, by one and the other Chamber, submitted for consideration 1. Whether the Company's own large ships ought not to be sold, or only a certain number of them retained ? 2.Ought not the Company disembarrass itself of the large quantity of cannon, &c., which here and there among the Chambers ? is still

3. Ought not the dock yards, rope-walks and drug stores be sold?

4. Could not the number of Directors be reduced or salaries which they receive, diminished ? ;

5. Ought not the Provincial and City Directors be domiciled at the place where the

Chambers to which they belong are located ? 6. Could not the Assembly of the XIX. be held less frequently and would it not be better ;

attended here in the Hague than at Amsterdam and Zealand '?

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228 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. 7. Ought it not be resolved that all goods be sold for current silver money? 8. Can any better order be made for increasing the gold from Guinea?

9. Must the defective Chambers supply their lists?

10. Ought not equalization be introduced between the respective Chambers?

The third 'point --Of Ways and Means. Subsistence. In Order to allow the Company to recuperate, and to subsist for the future, the respective Chambers consider these two means necessary. 1. First, that the Brazilian conquests be purged at the public charge and by the public force; the petition for six thousand men is to that effect. 2. Secondly, that it ought to receive the East India Company's duties to the amount of fifteen hundred thousand guilders, pursuant to your High Mightinesses' resolution. In addition to these general means, the majority of the Chambers add some special means as follows: -- oq recnnsWeratioD, 3.