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The VOC consisted of 6 Chambers (''Kamers'') in [[Amsterdam]], [[Middelburg]] (for [[Zeeland]]), [[Enkhuizen]], [[Delft]], [[Hoorn]] and [[Rotterdam]]. Delegates of these chambers convened as the ''Heeren XVII'' (the Lords Seventeen).

To the counsel of ''Heeren XVII'', eight delegates were from the Chamber of Amsterdam, four from Chamber Zeeland and one from each of the smaller Chambers. Access to the seventeenth seat was rotated among the Chamber of Zeeland or one of the smaller Chambers. Amsterdam had thereby nothe decisive voice. Particularly the Zeelanders were at the start up of the VOC suspicious for this. This fear was not unfounded, because in practice it meant that indeed Amsterdam stipulated what happened.

The start up capital of the Dutch East India Company was; f. 6.424.588 and was raised by the 8 chambers;