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Council, since changing from one party to the other would cause nothing but confusion and
discord.
7. By their revolt, the majority of the population of the Island of Makian have forfeited
their extirpation money, which had been given to them for years, ever since the eruption of
the mountain of Makian, without sufficient proof that spice trees have since grown on the
islands. It will therefore depend on the kindness of the High Government of the Indies
whether or not recognition money will be given to the population once they are again
assembled under one authority.
8. The headmen of Makian who are at present under the protection of the Company
promise, for themselves and for their subordinates, to regard the friends of the Company as
their own friends and the enemies of the Company as their own enemies.
9. They will not have any communication with any foreign nation whatsoever; they will
oppose all collective purchase of spices and all spice trading; [p. 335] and they will render
all possible assistance to Company ships and trading vessels which may be shipwrecked or
damaged near the Island of Makian. If these regulations are not observed they will suffer
the penalties set forth in the contracts made with Ternate.
10. In compliance with earlier contracts, they agree to supply three hundred measures of
lime annually to Ternate at the price received during the last few years, namely fifteen
pennies per measure. But in addition to the aforementioned quantity, they agree to
prepare, on Makian itself if possible, another two to three hundred measures which the
Company must collect and for which the Company will pay a price of twenty pennies per
measure.
11. They will keep fifty men constantly engaged in felling timber to be used for wood
products such as totaras, gabba-gabba lathes, atap, etc., for which the same price will be
paid as was previously paid to His Highness the Sultan of Ternate, who allows the
collecting and cutting of building material on his lands without laying claim to anything, so
long as the Makians take it upon themselves to provide food during that work.
12. The above-mentioned headmen also agree, for themselves and for their subordinates, to
supply thirty hirelings every month to carry out daily work. These hirelings will receive six
pennies per day, as do Ternatese subjects.
13. Moreover, they will supply, when the Company needs them, men to load and unload
ships and vessels, and these men also will receive six pennies per day.
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14. The above-mentioned headmen agree to hand over to the Sultan of Ternate those
Ternatese subjects who have left their country (except for Makians and people from Kayoa)
and who are living at present on Makian or who want to settle there; but it will be left to
the discretion of those Makians who are scattered at present here and there on Tidorese
lands, whether or not they wish to be under the authority of the Sultan or prefer to join
those who will henceforth come under the protection of the Company.
15. Lastly, for the time that Makian and Kayoa are under the immediate protection of the
Company, all offenses committed by Makians or Kayoans will be examined by a court of
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