amount as the members of the Board shall agree upon among themselves.

23.

And that each of said Directors shall As well as the order which ought to be henceforth serve nine years instead of six. enacted respecting these two points.

24.

And be obliged continually to reside within the cities where their Chambers are established. 25.

And as regards the premised Chief point respecting the aforesaid means of subsistence, your great Mightinesses' Commissioners are, under correction, of opinion -- 26.

That besides the provisional aid required fl. 7,500" to wit: fl. 6,300" of money borfor the Company, and what is connected rowed on interest, and fl. 1,500" of current and Vol. I. 30

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284 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. therewith, the aforesaid general Board of accruing debts; the credits in the country, Accounts ought to prepare and deliver in ajust, independent of the property in storehouses,

subscribed statement of debits and credits yards, ships and cannon, are few or none. also.oflhe effects which the Company I Those of Brazil were included in them. at home and abroad.

27.

And the deputed Members submit to your Yes ; the Board ought to be requested to Great Mightinesses, whether the Board ought consider how the Company shall best be not seasonably to consider how and in what relieved of its debts, manner its debts shall best be paid.

28.

And moreover, a pertinent statement ought The votes of subsidies ought to be taken to be prepared and exhibited by their High according to the estimate of the increase and Mightinesses' Secretary and by the aforesaid the petitions of the Council of State consequent General Board of accounts; also by all the Cham- thereupon, that is up to the close and last of bers of the West India Company, respectively, the year of the old Charter, being in ten years of the subsidies voted the aforesaid Company 7,000' guilders ; what portion thereof has been by the Provinces, and of the sum paid thereon, paid by the one or the other province can be and consequently of the amount of subsidies seen by the last statement of the General Board still due by the State or the Provinces. of Accounts.