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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 278 (part 3)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Heretofore our Commissioners have submitted their particular suggestions on this matter to your High Mightinesses, to the effect for the most part substantially, that population and agriculture there may be encouraged by the granting of such Freedoms and Exemptions whereby every one, may be encouraged by the opportunity to transport themselves thither with their means, and in order that such persons may find occasion thereto in all the Provinces, let these concessions be drawn up on an impartial basis and granted by all the Chambers to such as may happen to present themselves, which we readily conclude and hope shall be so determined by your High Mightinesses, for we, being alike incorporated and interested, are of opinion under correction that such district of country lying within the limits of our Charter, ought not to be left exclusively to the Chamber of Amsterdam. 'Tis true, that Chamber hath heretofore repeatedly offered to admit us and other Chambers, but always