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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 143

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Which Commissaries shall pay the Military in Brazil on the footing, and according to the regulation, laid down in the aforesaid advice of the Chamber of Westfriesland and North Quarter, out of the duties, freights and convoys; also, out of about three hundred thousand guilders to be sent them from Fatherland, in flour and other dry goods; out of the recognitions and convoys of the country produce exported by permission in private vessels from New Netherland to Brazil, and out of the Spanish wines and oils imported from the Islands, also out of the three per cent on the goods from Angola, sent from thence to Brazil, in consequence of want of sale, and from the 30 and 50 florins per head, on each slave respectively. Your Great Mightinesses' deputies being of opinion that for the tenths of the sugars, duty, freight and convoy, the Chambers in this country shall receive, at the lowest calculation,