[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] people who reside there, without permitting any commission merchants (commissie vaerders) to traffic in any manner with the Indians; but to be satisfied with the exchange of their cargoes for the peltries, tobacco, wheat and other country produce of the free inhabitants. But it should be absolutely forbidden that either freemen should sell to the Indians, or commission merchants to freemen, any arms or munitions of war, on a certain heavy penalty to be thereunto enacted, lest the Indians, deriving strength from such a trade, may, in course of time, be encouraged to do us more harm than they can now, in their impotency, inflict. But it will suffice that each of the free inhabitants shall be provided with a good gun and side arms, for self-defence, as hereinbefore laid down in the 5"" point; which arms ought to be inspected by the Director every six months. And for the greater encouragement of the good people of New Netherland, it is submitted that the Hon-'^ Assembly take into consideration whether it would not tend to the advantage HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IL 155 of those possessions to allow all resident Patroons and Colonists to export their produce to Brazil, under proper duty and toll, as flour, oatmeal, peas, beans, pipe staves, planks, square and other timber, fit for the building of ships and houses, abound there.