Payment as shall be Expressed in such Order And the said Proprietors doe further Order, Direct and Agree and Declare that the said Rip Van Dam shall and may out of the Residue of the Arrears of Rents & out of the Ready Money to be raised by the Sale of the said Quitt. Rents (and after the Delivery to him of such Certificate and Accompts as is Appointed to George Willokes) pay to the said George Willokes and John Reid Respectively their Executors Administrators & Assignes FIVE POUNDS p'cent for all such Ready Moneyes as they shall raise by the said Quit Rents and shall also Assigne to him and them respectively for their owne use at his or their Demand such and so many of the said Securityes to be taken in his the said Rip Van Dams Name as he or they shall Choose and as shall amount to the rate or Value of Five Pounds p'cent for all the Moneyes intended to be secured by such securityes as a Recompense for their care and Paines in making such sales & also the said Rip Van Dam shall & may DEDUCT & DEFALK thereout to his own use One P[ound] & tenn Shillings p'cent for all such Money as he shall Receive in Specie and shall pay out again in Specie to the said Proprietors or their Order [And] the said Proprietors doe further Order and Direct that after the Payment of such Debts as aforesaid & Deduction of such Recompenses & Gratuitys to the said George Willokes, John Reid and Rip Van Dam as aforesaid the said Rip Van Dam his Execcs and Administrators shall pay the Residue and Remainder of all the Moneys which he shall Receive Either for Arrears of Rents sale of Rents or upon any Securityes for Money to be taken in his Name as aforesaid to the Proprietors of East New Jersey who shall be Named in the Certificate herein before mentioned & directed to be Delivered to him in Proportion to their Respective Interests to be Expressed in such Certificate or to the Exec's Administrators thereunto Lawfully authorized and who shall Promise a Perticular Certificate from the Deputy S[ecretary] & Register of the said Province of his or their tytle as Proprietor or Proportion in any Proprietie to be compared with the General Certificate to be left with the said Rip Van Dam. AND the said Rip Van Dam for himself his Heires, Executors & Administrators doth Covenant and Agree to and with the said Thomas Hart, Thomas Barker, Joseph Ormston, and Walter Benthal on behalf of themselves & the rest of thPe roprietors their Execs & Administrators That he the said Rip Van Dam his Heires Exec and Administrators shall & will faithfully Performe all & every the Trusts herein before Reposed in him according to the true intent & meaning of these presents, And it is hereby Declared by the said Proprietors that he and the said John Reid shall not Act in & about the Premises during the life time of the said George Willokes, nor be entituled to any of the Recompense of the Five p'cent hereby appointed for the sale of the Quit Rents which shall be sold by the said George Willokes IN WITNESS whereof the Partys to these Presents have Interchangeably set their hands & seales the day and year first above written Mem The Publique Seal of the Province of West New Jersey was affixed to this writing by St Thomas Lane Knight, Paul Dorminique Esq: John Bridges Thomas Skiner Esq and Robert Michell Merch' (the p'sones Impowered by the Society of West New Jersey) to strengthen and Confirme the p'ticular Act and Deed of the above Named p'sones And to no other Intent or purpose whatsoever. THOS LANE PAUL DORMINIQUE Wm HAMOND being a Comittee of the West New Jersey Society. Order of Council, directing the payment of all duties to the Governor of New York, by vessels trading in Hudson's River. [From P. R. O. B. T. Proprieties, Vol. 25, p. 188.] AT THE COURT AT KENSINGTON the 25th day of November 1697. Present. The Kings Most Excellent Majesty in Council. UPON reading this day at the Board a Representation from the Council of Trade in the words following. Here follows the Representation at length [printed on page 180.] His Majesty in Council approving the said Repre sentation was thereupon pleased to dismiss the said Petition of the Proprietors of East New Jersey, And to order that the usuall Instruction relating to Duties to be paid by Ships Trading in Hudsons River, be continued to the Governour of New York for the time being who is not to Suffer any innovation within the said River in that behalf, nor to permit any goods to pass up the same but what shall have paid the Duties at New York. And the Right Honourable the Council of Trade are to take care from time to time that Instruction be given accordingly. JOHN POVEY. The Lords of Trade to the Earl of Bellomont, relative to Ports in New Jersey. From N. Y. Col. Doc'ts., Vol. IV., p 297.] (Extract.) Since your Lord's departure from hence, the proprietors of East and West New Jersey having been very pressing for the priviledge of Ports in those Countries. We have been oblidged to enquire carefully into their pretended right thereunto, and to lay our opinion before His Maj' that they have no such rights, and that it is not convenient it should be granted to them; upon which His Maj' having been pleased to give directions accordingly, and a copy of our representation being inserted in the order of Council made thereupon, we send you herewith all a copy of the said order, that you may understand the reasons of that determination, and take care that the rights and priviledges of the province of New York be not infringed. My Lord * * * * X * Your Lordship's most humble servants, J BRIDGEWATER PH MEADOWS WM BLATHWAYTE JNO POLLEXFEN A HILL Feb 23, 169 |