The Director allows his commissaries at Fort Orange to trade fusils and articles of contraband to the Indians, according to his Honor's acls.nowledgment and avowal in the Council, to wit, that he had Mess" the Directors' order thereunto, which Jacob van Schermerhorn and Jacob Ryntjes reproached him witli in full Court, in 1G49, when the Director on my demand, ex officio confiscated their goods. Whereunto his Honor answered, that he would do it, and will not allow them to do it. The Deputy observed that such did not accord with the General instruction. The Freemen have never had, to our knowledge, any guns out of the store, where indeed none are kept for them.

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And whereas, the Company hath now resolved to open to private persons the trade which it has exclusively carried on with New Netherland, and to empower the respective Chambers of the Company to give permission to all private inhabitants of these Countries to sail with their own ships to New Netherland, the Virginias, the Swedish, English and French Colonies, Barmudas or any other places situate thereabout, according to the drafted regulation, they shall carefully observe or cause to be observed, that the contents thereof shall be attended to as much as is in their power, acting against the contraveners, agreeably to the first article of the Charter, and the tenor of the regulation already made and to be hereafter enacted, and regarding the receipts of the duties, tolls and other rights already imposed and to be hereafter imposed, as well on the exported as on the imported goods, for so much thereof as shall have to be paid in that and not in this country.