The City of Amsterdam shall cause a convenient warehouse to be prepared wherein shall be deposited all the goods the said City intends to send to its Colonie in New Netherland, where they may be inspected, in the presence of a person appointed for that purpose by the City of Amsterdam, by any one authorized by the Directors of the West India Company, and marked with the marks of the City and Company, the duty thereon being paid to the Company according to the list hereof to be made and agreed on. Which goods may, then, be laden with the Company's knowledge, in any vessel or vessels the said City will be able to obtain. If the City of Amsterdam shall ship any goods or freight in ahy vessel going to New Netherland, it shall submit to the same regulations as others.

(535 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. But if the City of Amsterdam shall send away its own, or any chartered ship, laden only with its own goods, it shall send that ship or ships directly to its own city, town or Colonie, provided that all the goods put on board be opened in the City's warehouse there in the presence of some person belonging to the Company appointed for that purpose, to whom also the letters and commission from the Company shall be delivered. In like manner all wares, produce or merchandise imported from the City's Colonie must be brought whole into the City here and opened in the City's warehouse in the presence of a person appointed for that purpose by the Company, and the duties due to the Country and the Company must be paid thereon.^