[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] subject to the regulations to be made therein by the Director and Council. And if any one be disposed to settle on a spot not as yet the property of the Company but belonging to the natives of the country, he shall be obliged to satisfy them for the soil, which can be effected very reasonably and for a few trifles, in presence of some person representing the Company. • Vol. L 51 402 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Whoever will desire to erect, as Patroon, a Colonic in New Netherland, sliall be also at liberty to do so, and for that purpose to look out, either himself or by others, according to circumstances; on condition that he declare that he will undertake to plant therein within the space of four years, after giving notice to any of the Company's Chambers here, or to the Commander or Council there, a Colonic of one hundred souls above fifteen years old, one fourth part thereof within the year, and to ship hence, within three years after sending out of the first, making, in all, four years, the balance to the full amount of one hundred persons, on pain of losing, by notorious neglect, the freedoms obtained. But he shall be advised that the Company reserves unto itself the island of the Manhattes. And from the first moment that he shall have signified the places where he intends to plant his Colonic, he shall be preferred before all others in the free possession of such lands as he shall have selected there; but in case such places shall not be afterwards agreeable, or a