The City of Amsterdam may make the best agreement it can with the skippers for the transportation of both people and goods. 3.

Said City is to advance the passage money, on condition that it be hereafter repaid to the City in manner hereinafter mentioned. 4.

To the end that the said Colonists may gain their livelihood there safely, honestly and prosperously, the City aforesaid doth beforehand guarantee as follows

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First. Said City shall provide and assign a fruitful soil in a healthy and temperate climate,

watered by and situated upon a fresh water river which can be navigated by large ships; for which purpose an agreement shall be previously made with the West India Company for a place at its disposal and to which no other persons have any claim.

Here the City shall lay out a proper piece of land on a river side for a safe habitation and residence of the Colonists, and fortify it with a ditch without and a wall within ; and divide the inclosed land into streets, a market, and lots suitable for the use as well of traders and mechanics as of farmers ; and all this at the expense of the City.

7.

The City of Amsterdam shall send thither a proper person for Schoolmaster, who shall also read the Holy Scriptures and set the Psalms.

8.

The City of Amsterdam shall provisionally and until further opportunity provide the salary of said Schoolmaster. 9.

And to the end that the Colonists going thither, may be provided with all proper necessaries, as far as possible, the City of Amsterdam shall furnish them for one year with clothing and all sorts of seed grain ; and, moreover, shall build, in the place aforesaid, a large magazine or warehouse, wherein it shall keep all sorts of articles, both for clothing and the subsistence of the people and supply them with all sorts of seed grain ; it shall, likewise, keep a factor there,