[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] great encouragement to the planters who convert the forest into farms.i and be better also for their laborers who could thus be supplied with all necessaries.^ IV. Also permission to export, sell, and barter grain, timber and all other wares and merchandise, the produce of this country,^ every way and every where your High Mightinesses have allies, and have granted to the Netherlanders the privilege of trade and resort.^ V. That your High Mightinesses would please to grant Privileges and Freedoms^ to the inhabitants for the encouragement of the fisheries,'' which many suppose were good and profitable heretofore, and would hereafter be of great importance.' Of Protection. Thirdly. We humbly beseech your High Mightinesses to be pleased to determine and so to establish the boundaries of this country both north and south, ^ that all causes of difference, discord and trouble may be cut off,' that your High Mightinesses' subjects'" may live and ' Tobacco planting is one of the most suitable means of converting the forest into farms. As people in New Netherland endeavor to have several corn fields and bouweries, it ought therefore be encouraged, especially as tobacco now rates low. ^ For, all skippers and traders would then be eager for the tobacco, which now they neither can nor -will regard; for this reason the poor planters, who must perforin the heaviest labor, remain unaccommodated and recHess.