Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 142
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Limits of the Charter, shall be instructed and authorized to demand from all ships belonging to this country, which will be met with, in those parts, their license and commission, and finding them without that of the General Company to be furnished at the Assembly of the XIX., the ships provided therewith shall be empowered to drive them from the loading or trading places, in addition to the penalty incurred by them for the Company's benefit, which the skippers, owners or freighters thereof shall be empowered to demand again from those by whom such were licensed and commissioned. Thus provisionally enacted and resolved by the General Incorporated West India Company at the Assembly of the XIX., with the approbation of the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands, at Middelburgh, in Zealand, the 14"" October, 1645. Free Trade, 7. The scvcnth and last place is New Netherland, which the majority consider will be best benefited by granting individuals there the liberty to convey, in their own ships, their country produce, grain, flour, fish and other provisions, from thence to other places situate within the Company's Charter, on proper recognitions; which liberty some members restrict to Brazil, others to all the places of the Charter, except Guinea and St. Thomas. Second point — Of Retrenchment and Reform. Reform.