First, the Management in regard to Navigation and Trade.

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Secondly, Retrenchment and redress; and Thirdly, Means of support; and that upon all these points very good suggestions have been made in the vs^ritten Memoir of the aforesaid joint or general advice of the deputed Directors of the respective Companies whereunto they refer, except that certain articles relating to hostility or enmity shall cease in time of peace.

But, under correction of your Great Mightinesses, they are moreover of opinion, that the following would be also beneficial and advantageous to the aforesaid Direction : That individuals trading to Brazil shall cause the duties, freights and convoys to be paid in Brazil to six Commissaries to be appointed by the respective Chambers, with certain instruction to be drawn up for said Commissaries, and on the plan more fully detailed in

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the advice of the Chamber of Westfriesland and North Quarter.

Which Commissaries shall pay the Military in Brazil on the footing, and according to the down in the aforesaid advice regulation, laid of the Chamber of Westfriesland and North Quarter, out of the duties, freightsand convoys; also, out of about three hundred thousand guilders to be sent them from Fatherland, in and other dry goods flour out of the recognitions and convoys of the country produce exported by permission in private vessels from New Netherland to Brazil, and out of the Spanish wines and oils imported from the Islands, also out of the three per cent on the goods from Angola, sent from thence to Brazil, in consequence of want of sale, and from the 30 and 50 florins per head, on each slave respectively.