The persons hereinafter specified, shall be maintained to garrison the fort, on such pay as shall be found most advantageous for the Company, and for greater security the Colonists and their domestics shall be holden, under certain penalties, to provide themselves with good muskets and other weapons for their own defence, so as to be able, in time of necessity, with the garrison to resist a general attack, without the Director, Colonists, or whosoever it may be, having the power to take into the pay of the Company any soldiers, be they few or many.

The Director garrisons the fort according to his pleasure without mine or the Deputy's knowledge he discharges and enlists soldiers gets some out from Fatherland. Since he ; ;

hath shoved me and the Deputy out of our offices, and appointed his beloved Cornells van Tienhoven, Fiscal, we do not know precisely how many soldiers he hath in pay. One hundred muskets have been distributed among the people, which had been brought over by Jacob van Kouwenhoven; without the assistance and accommodation in wheat, furnished by this individual, the Company's servants at Curasao and here, would have perished of hunger, according to the representation of the Director, who repeatedly borrowed grain of him, and treated him tyrannically notwithstanding. 'Twill hereafter be shown, on your High Mightinesses' order, how the people were bound to keep their arms in good condition.

Further, inasmuch as the respective Colonists have been allowed by the Freedoms to delegate one or two persons to give information to the Director and Council at least once a year of the state and condition of their Colonies, the same is hereby confirmed.