(16) It is permitted, moreover, that if the GlOckstadt African Company is unable
to give satisfactory assurances of its ability to continue its career on the lines already
planned, the West India Company shall be allowed to take up said Company's work
with the same privileges and exemptions as the Gl0ckstadt company now has,
although in such a case they shall pay said company for all its entire stock of pieces,
guns, and ammunition, and also permit it to remove such goods as it may have on
hand, and to collect its outstanding debts there, unless some other arrangement is
made between the two companies.

 But inasmuch as the forts revert Ex direlicto to his Majesty, he will hand them
over to the Company's possession and retention without any dues.

 Finally, the privilege of using his Majesty's seal in such cases as the
advancement of commerce seems to require is by especial royal favor and grace
granted to those servants of the Company in the [West] Indies who have charge of its
business.

 Which most gracious charter is dated [at] Copenhagen, March 11, A[nn]o 1671.