Under stood -- By order of the Lords States General, Signed, C. Aerssen.

Orga7iization of a Company to Trade in America^ c&c, proposed.

Copy of a Resolution of the States of Holland and Westvriesland dated IS""

July 1614.

EegardiDg the Ee- On the Remoustrance presented on the part of divers Traders of this country monstrance presented on behalf of bud- for the general Company formation of a o r J for the promotion r of the Commerce, ' dry MerchiinUs of

ierningth-'Erec'ito'n Navigation and Interest of the Country, to carry on Trade on some Coasts of t'adi a*ilTn!vi'gate Africa and America where the same may be prosecuted according to the Truce, Africa anTAmerira. some from Dordrccht, Delft, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hoorn and Enckhuyzen are appointed to examine the Remonstrance, to hear those who have sent it in, and the circumstances being well considered and deliberated on, to render a Report to the Assembly Which done, and the project being considered laudable and advantageous for the Country and Inhabitants, It is ordered that the matter be promoted in the General Assembly of the

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States, in a Memorial from some thoroughly versed in the subject, on behalf of the Provinces of Holland and Westfriesland.

Resolution of the States General on tJie proposed formation of a Commercial Company.

[ From Ihe Register of Resolutions of the Stales General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Monday, 21. June 1614.

DiverlTraders.Read a Remonstrance of divers Traders of these Provinces in substance for the formation and erection in this country of a general Company for the West Indies, the coast