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. ;

" This rate must be fixed by your High Mightinesses and, at farthest, ought not to be more for the voyage than 30 and 32 guilders for a full grown man or woman eating in the 'tween decks [overloop), and 38 and 40 guilders in the cabin. This money might, as herein before stated, Cap. V., N" 4, be advanced out of the public funds, and again made good in New Netherland and for that purpose it would be very well to cause all those people ;

who become free of the country or descend from those who have become free, to pay double in favor of the finances, and in order to induce those to emigrate who are somewhat slow on account of their straitened circumstances. " Being allured by the fertility and salubrity of the country, by the good order, privileges, free government, and by being conveyed over on the first voyage, without disbursing any money. Vol. I. 34