[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 47. We think the Company has done enough, to wit: in conveying over, at the Company's expense, numbers of people, among whom were Jacob Couwenhoven's father and brothers, together with cattle and other necessaries. 48. We consider their duty to be to receive whatever is to be paid. 49. This article is answered in the deduction. 50. 'Tis to be considered that, in New Netherland, only a beer and wine-excise is levied, which is paid by the Tapsters alone; the rest of the inhabitants are untaxed and do not pay any excise-Si. The late Director Kieft, having great need of money, collected, in New [Netherland], in supplies for the people, the duties which the traders were bound to pay to the Directors at Amsterdam, as the accounts of the privileged merchants can show; some petty traders (schotten) paid in beavers-or in wampum. 344 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. 52. The burgher, or other inhabitants of New Netherland, do not pay any beer or wine-excise; the inn, or tavern-keeper, alone is obliged to pay the excise, which impost is less than of right belongs to the Company, and there is no cause for the inhabitants to complain on that account. 53. We are of opinion that the petitioners are utterly ignorant of the Company's property, and very improperly make any estimate thereof, that being, in no wise, the petitioners' business. 54 and 55.