" We have decreed that a Seal for the City of New Amsterdam shall be proposed and forwarded," write the Directors of the West India Company to Gov. Stuyvesanton the 18th May 1654. > The Vessel by which it was sent to this country, sailed from Holland on the 17th or 18th of July following,^ and on the 8th of December of the same year, " the Director General delivered to the presiding Burgomaster Mart. Crigier the painted Coat of Arms with the Seal of JYew Amsterdam, and the Silver Signet which were sent by the Directors in the Ship the Pear tree. ^

These arms may be thus described : Urgent per pale ; three

crosses saltire ; Crest, a Beaver proper, surmounted by a mantle on which is a shield ar. bearing the letters G W C. * Under the base of the arms are the words, Sigillvm Amstellodamensis in Novo Belgio: -- The Seal of Amsterdam in New Netherland. The whole is environed by a wreath of laurel.

This Seal is exceedingly rare; we know not of a duplicate original impression.

There is no notice of any City Seal after this until 1669, when Gov: Lovelace addressed the following Letter to the Mayor and aldermen: -- " Mr. Mayor and you the rest of the aldermen

"As a Particular Testimony of His R. Hjghnesse Grace and fauour to this his Citty of New York, I am Commanded to present

1 Vanderkemp's Trans, of Dutch Rec, iv. 136; viii., 98.