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CONTENTS. Ixv 1662, p^OE. May 24. Resolution of the States-General thereupon 473 May 24. Letter of the States-General to the different Chambers of the West India Company upon the foregoing matter 4Y8 May 28. Letter of the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, to the States-General, respecting their High Migtinesses' resolution of 16th May, revoking Stuyvefaat's ree.ijl, &c 479 May 28. Resolution of the States-General thereupon 4»jg June 20. Minute of the receipt of a letter from A. V. de Jonge, Accountant-General of the West India Company, in place of Samuel Blommaert, lately deceased, &e., 4g0 June 22. Resolution of the States-General, referring a letter from the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company in answer to their High Mightinesses' letter of 24th May, to a committee, &c . June 24. Letter of the Dordtrecht Chamber of the West India Company to the States-General, in answer to theirs of 24th May 4gO June 24. Resolution of the States-General thereupon 481 July 17. Secret resolution of the States-General on the commencement of the war with England, 481 July 17. Secret resolution of the States-General to send a frigate toNew Netherland, &c., 482 July 22. Secret resolution of the States-General ou the subject of the preservation of New Netherland, &c., 482 July 22. Secret resolution of the States-General to write to Director Stuyvesant, that in the present situation of affairs between England and the United Provinces, he keep a careful watch, and that no person be employed, of whose devotion to the State he is not assured, &c., <fec . 482 July 22. Letter of the States-General to Stuyvesant thereupon, 4g3 July 31. Secret memoir of the Directors of the West India Company to the committee of the States-General, respecting the preservation of Brazil and New Netherland, <tc 483 July 31.