It is Company hath received five per cent, but in reality sixteen per cent, not true that the according to contracts made with merchants in the premises; they enjoy, in return, trade which the Company might otherwise retain to themselves agreeably to the charter and the ;

text -- five per cent -- is incorrectly applied, it having reference to freights and not to duties; according to Exemptions, article 10. 45.

The merchants are treated agreeably to the regulations made therein.

46.

We know not what the petitioners mean by this article. 47.

We think the Company has done enough, to wit: in conveying over, at the Company's expense, numbers of people, among whom were Jacob Couwenhoven's father and brothers, together with cattle and other necessaries.

48.

We consider their duty to be to receive whatever is to be paid. 49.

This article is answered in the deduction.

50.

'Tis to be considered that, in New Netherland, only a beer and wine-excise is levied, which is paid by the Tapsters alone ; the rest of the inhabitants are untaxed and do not pay any excise- Si.

The late Director Kieft, having great need of money, collected, in New [Netherland], in supplies for the people, the duties which the traders were bound to pay to the Directors at Amsterdam, as the accounts of the privileged merchants can show; some petty traders (schotten) paid in beavers- or in wampum.

344 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. 52.

The burgher, or other inhabitants of New Netherland, do not pay any beer or wine-excise ;