For it is only in order to assist the people on their first starting, and should any bad debts accrue by death or otherwise, the fifty per cent advance can always richly meet the capital with the interest. ' Until they are over two, three and four years in a way of paying, as, with the help of God, no man will fail of success in New Netherland, who will take his hand out of his mouth and do his best. ' Were those in New Netherland, who sit down in poverty in this country and almost perish of want, yea have need of bread to eat, and suffer from distress and cold, --and were they industrious, they could honestly earn their living. 'People are bound to pray for their benefactors, and if they do it not, virtue is always its own reward and God recompenses it. ' To order by edicts or placards positively and inviolably, under forfeiture of ship and cargo, should any

one infringe it, except through stress of weather or other serious casualty. '" As well to New England as to Virginia and elsewhere, to pursue the tobacco trade or other traffic, as full

twenty-five and thirty ships of over and under one hundred and fifty lasts yearly do. " Manhathans is the Capital of New Netherland, and the Staple is there established whereunto it is very ;

well adapted on account of the convenience of the river, and because it is the centre of that Province. '^To the skippers or other overseers to be thereunto appointed by your High Mightinesses in order that everything be done with regularity, for otherwise those skippers who do not want that, will elude your High Mightinesses' good intention and orders. " That must not be left to them but to the overseers, as there will always be a great deal more than the skippers can carry for people must not be trusted farther than they can be seen. ;