Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 141 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 223 carrying timber, salt, tobacco, cotton or other fruits and wares, the growth thereof, were empowered to resort to certain parts within the charter of the West India Company, howsoever, and at whatever time they might have been enacted, published and executed; and do enact, decree and ordain anew, that the ships of the aforesaid inhabitants shall be at liberty henceforth to sail in the West Indies, to wit, from the River Oronoco, westward along the coast of Paria, Cumana, Venezuela, Carthagena, Porto Bello, Honduras, Campeachy, the Gulf of Mexico and the coast of Florida; also, between and around all the Islands situate within the said district, even to Curasao, Buenaire and Aruba, without being at liberty to go further eastward on the Wild Coast, much less to the Amasons or Maraigum, nor more northerly than Cape Florida, nor for any cause or in any wise, to be at liberty to resort to the Virginias» New Netherland, New France, and other places lying thereabout, or to be able to go to or on the coasts of Africa, Brazil or elsewhere, wheresoever it may be, where the Company trades, under a penalty, for whomsoever shall infringe or act contrary to the same, of forfeiting ship and goods, which everywhere, even without previous prosecution, shall be seized and held as forfeit for the Company's behoof; and in case such ships or goods be sold, or run into other countries or harbors, the skippers, owners or charter-party, shall have execution issue against them for the value of said ships and goods, according to the first article of the charter.