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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 138 (part 6)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Qf ]\jg^ Netherlaud, is taken up, and resolved to open the trade to that quarter, and to permit individuals to export thence in their own ships, their country HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IIL 215 produce, grain, flour, fish, and other supplies. But inasmuch as some discrepancy exists between the members, as to whether this exportation shall be granted alone to Brazil, or indeed to all of the Company's districts, except Guinea and St. Thomas, they are requested to consider the same until next Monday, and to come to a mutual understanding. Monday, 20 January, 1648. Folio su. Again the seventh section of the Management is taken into consideration, and export*' t'ire?r'°co'un^ it is rcsoIvcd that private inhabitants of New Netherland shall be allowed to Iry produce to Bra-,. _ -.,,,.,., i.. zii and Angola. export their country produce under suitable duty, in their own or chartered ships, to Brazil and Angola, on these following conditions: first, that the aforesaid ships, when in Brazil, shall not be at liberty to return back, with sugars to New Netherland aforesaid, but shall let themselves be chartered directly hither. Secondly, that the permit to proceed to Angola above mentioned, shall only be provisionally granted, and that for the time that the dispensation shall continue in regard to the exportation of Slaves, which was accorded on Thursday last.