With this paper van der Donck laid before the States-General a voluminous mass of extracts of letters and other documents received chiefly in the year 1051, by him from New Netherland, detailing the difliculties there.' After a reference of these papers to the different chambers of the West India Company and considering their various reports thereon, which occupied many months, the States-General adopted and sent the following recall to Stuyvesant, " Honorable &c. We have, in view of the public service considered it necessary to require you, on sight hereof, to repair hither in order to furnish us circumstantial and pertinent information, as to the true and actual condition of the country and aff"airs; and also of the boundary line between the English and the Dutch there. Done 27th April 1052." -

The very day before, on the 26th of April, at his own request pursuant to the charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, the States-General granted to van der Donck, by patent under seal, the " venia testandi," or right to dispose by will as Patroon, "of the Colonic Nepperhaein by him called Colem Donck, situate in New Netherland.""

He now thought everything was completed and that he should soon be again on the banks of the Hudson. He embarked his goods and everything in the way of supplies for his "Colonic," in a vessel then anchored in the Texel, aud on the 13th of May 1652 applied to the States-General for their formal permit to return home, which was requisite by a resolution of that body of the 14th of the preceding March. But he was doomed to disappointment. The Amsterdam chamber supported their officers, and were dis[)leased at van der Donck, and the delegation for laying all thoir matters before the States-General instead of before themselves, thereby forcing the chamber to bring its own action in New Netherland before the "Lords of Holland," as the States-General were termed.