[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : H. 123 the same shall belong to the Company on paying the discoverer such premium as the merits of the case shall demand. The Company shall take all Colonists, whether free or bound to service, under their protection, defend them as far as lies in their power with the force which it has there, against all domestic and foreign wars and violence, on condition that the Patroons and Colonists shall, in such case, put themselves in a suitable state of defence for which purpose each male emigrant shall be obliged to provide himself, at his own expense, with a gun or musket of the Company's regular calibre, or a cutlass and side arms. And no other Religion shall be publicly admitted in New Netherland except the Reformed, as it is at present preached and practiced by public authority in the United Netherlands; and for this purpose the Company shall provide and maintain good and.suitable preachers, schoolmasters and comforters of the sick.