[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And the West India Company shall be privileged, whenever said 200 persons are brought on board, to cause to be inspected the ship and the people, if these be qualified as aforesaid. And the New Netherland contractors declare that they do not intend to derive any profit beyond the return of cost which must be disbursed to obtain the passengers; they also bind themselves, the costs being deducted, to leave any overplus there may be, to be applied next year to the like conveyance of farmers or farm servants; whereunto they each oblige themse\\es in sotiditm and under renunciation of division, and also subject their goods to all courts and judges. Thus agreed and concluded, and signed by the Contractors, on both sides, at the Hague, on the day and year aforesaid. Hesolution of the States General on the preceding. [ From the Eegister of West India Affairs, 16a9 — 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ] Wednesday, 23"' March, 1650. Folio 545. The report of Mess" van Aertsbergen and other their High Migtinesses' New Netherland. previous Committee for the affairs of the West India Company in treaty with pa^ngere^hithe"r?° the actual delegates from New Netherland relative to the conveyance to that country of two hundred passengers, and the conditions thereof, and the remarks of the Directors of the West India Company present, being heard, the Lords of Holland requested copy thereof, and the matter is meanwhile postponed. Resolution of the States of Holland and Westfriesland.