Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 236
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 18. The judicature ought to be left as established, both in the Company's lands and in the Colonies. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 393 This order is in regard of some private ships, impracticable and useless for the Company. Only this can be enacted, that all ships entered for New Netherland shall be obliged to convey over as many persons as they have lasts burthen. 21. So long as the Company continues in its present straitened condition and want of money, it cannot pledge itself to these 15,000 guilders per annum. And neither would the creditors of the Company allow its money to be employed for such a purpose, whilst their debts remain unpaid. (Endorsed) Remarks of the West India Chamber at Amsterdam on the Provisional Order on the government, preservation and peopling of New Netherland. 11 April, 1650. Provisional order respecting the govern-ment, preservation and peopling of New Netherland. Messrs.