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.

The Director never showed tlie Charter or Regulation to me nor to the Deputy, though repeatedly requested. Nevertheless, the contracts entered intoby the skippers with the Hon'''^ Company were closely observed by me as far as I was recognized and employed. The Director alone has to answer for the receipt of the duties, tolls and other dues, as he never acknowledged me in the matter, nor ever paid my salary nor my part of the confiscation, and on the contrary, upheld by his needy, unlawful Council aforesaid, he hath had and undertaken the management of all things, without recognizing the Deputy or me therein ; and when we inquired of him about the matter, we received ill treatment and the old answer: I shall defend it all.