Skipper, moreover, must take on board as many Soldiers, Free persons, men, women and children as he can conveniently accommodate in his aforesaid ship and as the Company shall order, whom he shall provide with meat and drink and serve up the same according to the Company's Tariff of Rations, on condition of paying for each head, to wit For the soldiers, thirty-six guilders :

and for the free persons forty guilders, those under ten years, half that rate, and children at the breast, nothing without his being at liberty to convey any person either from here ;

thither, or from there here, without obtaining therefor a special permit signed by the Directors, or the Governor in New Netherland under a penalty of fifty guilders for each person he shall have conveyed from here thither, and six hundred guilders for whomsoever he may bring thence here without special consent. And he, the Skipper, shall be, further, bound to take a supercargo on board his ship, on the Company's wages, whose board and lodging in the cabin shall be at the Skipper's expense ; all under forfeiture of the ship, tackle, and the freighted and traded goods or the value thereof, in case the Skipper or any of his people shall be found to have contravened these presents. He, the Skipper, consenting under his own hand-signature hereunto affixed, to subject himself to all courts and judges. All agreed and undertaken rightfully and in good faith, in Amsterdam, tiie

Resolution of the States General, on an Agreement hettveen the West India Company and the City of Amsterdam. [ From the Eegister of West India Affairs, 1052 -- 1668, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]