Adriaen van der Donck

“ Whenever the city or town shall have increased to the number of 250 families or more, then the burghers shall elect a council of twenty persons, who shall assemble in council with the burgomasters and schepens, and resolve upon all subjects relating to the state of the said city. And this council, after it shall have been thus formed, shall have power to fill vacancies arising in their number by deaths or otherwise, by ordering the election of other persons by a fair majority of votes to fill such vacancies in the said city council. ”

“ To every person who desires to pursue farming, there shall be granted in firm and continued ownership, as much tillable, pasture and hay-land, as he with his family can till and require, from twenty to thirty morgens or more, upon condition that all such land granted to any of the colonists shall, within two years after the same is granted, be brought into cultivation, upon pain of forfeiture and of the same being granted unto another. ”

“ The city of Amsterdam shall provide warehouses in Holland for the benefit of the colonists, and for the reception of their grain and articles of merchandise, and shall sell the same for the profit of the shippers, and again invest and remit the proceeds in such articles as shall be ordered, retaining a commission of two per cent, and a tenth of the net profits, to reimburse the said city for the money it has advanced for the transportation of the persons and goods of the colonists. ”