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.

29.

That further efforts ought to be made in The Company in general ought to request order that tiie provinces, in consequence of simply to be relieved from all money taken d

their neglect to pay respectively the aforesaid deposito. voted subsidies, may undertake to discharge or relieve the Company from the moneys borrowed on interest on their account.

30.

That in the foregoing required statement The first part of the annexed article has been ought to be noted, what provinces have not complied with, and what regards the remainder thus far voted subsidies for the Company, nor the Board will act as it deems most proper. paid these when voted as Holland has done; and the provinces in arrears ought then to be admonished, to clear up their deficiency so far as to be on a par, in votes and payments, with Holland and Westfriesland.