Fort Casimier can be placed provisionally in the hands of the City for better defence and security. That the expenses to be incurred in the transportation and support of the aforesaid people, should, after the lapse of a certain time, be made good by them in installments, or else by the payment annually of a reasonable tax. For the payment whereof, the land assigned to each shall be mortgaged to the City, and no one shall be allowed to leave the country except on payment of what he had received. That the aforesaid expenses of transportation may be provisionally somewhat diminished in case it could be resolved to charter the ships hence thither, and on arriving there, to set them up for freight and loading, with which they might return here.

Secondly. Concerning the improvement of the Company in general. Divers points on that subject were, in the year 1654, submitted to the Supreme Government of this country, copy whereof is hereunto annexed, to the end that your Honors may see how far existing circumstances will permit the undertaking of the one or the other. That in addition to the abovementioned points, the reduction of the Island of St. James is highly important; this can be accomplished with a very small force; such is also proper, in order to bring the entire Coast of Guinea, again, under this City. It would be equally advantageous that the Company be relieved of the Train bands which

have served with the Military in Brasil, and consequently that orders be issued that the one and the other be paid by the country. Finally and lastly, that the respite provisionally allowed by the State until the eighth day of their Great Mightinesses' present term,may be continued for some time, as otherwise the Directors would be put to such inconvenience in their administration, that they, in the long run, cannot resist.