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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 227 (part 3)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Salvage and duty, the merchants include in the capital; were percent. j[^gy rgijeved thereof, they would be able to sell their goods fifty per cent cheaper. 4. This duty is paid, partly, in Fatherland; partly in New Netherland, but all The dnfTi« raid to J V ^ V J' ' f J ' their offiTrs"'^ "' ^°^ ^^^ Company's benefit, and to it and its officers, without bearing in any way the expenses which accrue there, and the people make good. Who pays this duty. Having stated how much duty is paid, and to whom, and where the charges are paid, 'twill The merchants do P^*^ ^^ foreign to add who they are who pay it. The Company will say, the not pay ute duty. merchants pay it, but we, under correction, are of a diff"erent opinion.