[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Vagabonds Their High Mightinesses shall exert themselves to provide the Patroons with five oS^afrnVand in persous bouud to service, who shall be obliged to serve out their bounden time, in idleness and crime, ' ° are hereby meant, all obedience, for their board and clothing only, which being done, on bringing to this country a certificate thereof from the Patroons or their Commissaries, such persons shall be here restored to their former state and freedom. 31. In like manner, the Incorporated West India Company shall allot to each Patroon twelve Black men and women out of the prizes in which Negroes shall be found, for the advancement of the Colonies in New Netherland. 300 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. The Incorporated West India Company undertakes to maintain the fort and stronghold on the Island of Manhatten, in good defence and garrison, and to allow the Patroons to enjoy peaceably and quietly these Exemptions, Privileges and Freedoms. 33. All private and poor people (onvermogen personen) are excluded from these Exemptions Privileges and Freedoms, and are not alloveed to purchase any lands or grounds from the Sachems or Indians in New Netherland, but must repair under the jurisdiction of the respective Lords Patroons. Thus done and enacted. /Subject for the Consideration of the Assembly of the XIX. 1636. [ From the Original in tlie Eoyal Archives at the Hague: File, West Indie.