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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 372 (part 4)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And as regards the Tobacco which the aforesaid Skipper may have traded, or received as freight, in New Netherland, English Virginias, New England or elsewhere, it is expressly stipulated and by him agreed to pay thereof here to the Company 80 stivers per hundred pound of Virginia, and 20 stivers for the New Netherland, tobacco; The Skipper, moreover, must take on board as many Soldiers, Free persons, men, women and children as he can conveniently accommodate in his aforesaid ship and as the Company shall order, whom he shall provide with meat and drink and serve up the same according to the Company's Tariff of Rations, on condition of paying for each head, to wit : For the soldiers, thirty-six guilders and for the free persons forty guilders, those under ten years, half that rate, and children at the breast, nothing; without his being at liberty to convey any person either from here thither, or from there here, without obtaining therefor a special permit signed by the Directors, or the Governor in New Netherland under a penalty of fifty guilders for each person he shall have conveyed from here thither, and six hundred guilders for whomsoever he may bring thence here without special consent.