[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ' People are bound to pray for their benefactors, and if they do it not, virtue is always its own reward and God recompenses it. ' To order by edicts or placards positively and inviolably, under forfeiture of ship and cargo, should any one infringe it, except through stress of weather or other serious casualty. '" As well to New England as to Virginia and elsewhere, to pursue the tobacco trade or other traffic, as full twenty-five and thirty ships of over and under one hundred and fifty lasts yearly do. " Manhathans is the Capital of New Netherland, and the Staple is there established; whereunto it is very well adapted on account of the convenience of the river, and because it is the centre of that Province. '^ To the skippers or other overseers to be thereunto appointed by your High Mightinesses in order that everything be done with regularity, for otherwise those skippers who do not want that, will elude your High Mightinesses' good intention and orders. " That must not be left to them but to the overseers, as there will always be a great deal more than the skippers can carry; for people must not be trusted farther than they can be seen. " This rate must be fixed by your High Mightinesses and, at farthest, ought not to be more for the voyage than 30 and 32 guilders for a full grown man or woman eating in the 'tween decks [overloop), and 38 and 40 guilders in the cabin. This money might, as herein before stated, Cap.