Except the custom or duty payable to shall agree therefor as favorably as possible, the Company there from peltries, and proand especially that the duty to be paid in New vided it be done by the person or government Nethetland shall be employed in building and appointed there by the Company. maintaining public works.

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The said fortified place allotted for the Fiat. With this addition : And in regard to residence of the Colonists, whether called a descents, specially to observe the law of city or town, shall be regulated in matters of Aasdom^ and in justice, the practice and police or justice in the same manner as here in custom of the City of Amsterdam. Holland.

' Inheritnnee, in case of Intestacy,has been from old times in Holland of two kinds ; either according to the law of

Aasdom or Schependom. The rnle of the first is, "the next of blood inherits the goods or property;" of the second, "the property must revert to the source from whence it came." Van der Linden's Institutes of the Laws of Holland, 157. See also, Van Leeuioen's Commentaries on the Roman Dutch Law, pp. 288, 297, for a full explanation of the Aasdom-reght and its incidents. -- Ed.

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They shall first have one Schout or officer as the head of Justice, instructed as is the custom here. 13.

Who shall be appointed by the Deputies of He shall be appointed by the West India by the West India the City of Amsterdam or Company in the name of their High Mighli- Company in the name of their High Mighti-