A firm regulation should be made respecting All fruits and products raised there and the duty on their own products sent over by the cultivated by the Colonists shall be free of duty Colonists. and on coming here pay only the convoy to the Company.

3.

Their High Mightinesses or the Company Fiat. should cede and grant to the City of Amsterdam as founders and planters of the place, high, middle and low jurisdiction, in order the better to maintain the requisite authority among their people.

The City shall possess the jurisdiction afore- Fiat. said in form of a Fief, successively appointing to that end, a person on whom the Fief shall be conferred on payment of certain Seignorial dues. (Heer gewaden.)

The Sovereignty and supreme authority, or Fiat. whatever else depends thereon, remaining, nevertheless, in their High Mightinesses or the Company so far as it is authorized by the Charter. And as the government of Amsterdam hath no intention to extend any authority or power abroad, but merely designs to promote commerce, which is the life of this City, so will it be content to make over and convey everything to the Company aforesaid, in case their High Mightinesses or the Company aforesaid be inclined to reimburse, within the first ten years, to the City of Amsterdam, the

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VIIL 625 moneys disbursed, with simple interest at 5 per cent yearly, on condition that the said Company, in such case, remain bound to make good to the Colonists the Agreement heretofore drawn up and hereunto annexed.