Resolved, That the business of forming F.rectionofthcWest . , , . .

India Company. be Undertaken tomorrow morning; moreover, that to this meeting may come those deputed from the Provinces, those who will request to promote this work, those who act on orders, as well those who appear and have seats in the Assembly and at Extraordinary Meetings of other Chambers, and at the meeting of their High Mightinesses. Aud for this And for this business are deputed Nicasius Kien and Wilhem Eusselincx.

Further Resolutions concerning the formation of a West India

[ From the Register of Resolutions of the Slates General, In the Royal Archives at the Hague ]

Tuesday, 2""' September 1614. i 2Sr. Rpsnlvpd. that: Erection this afternoon.

8 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Copy of a Resolution of the States of Holland and West Friesland dated 25"' August -- 27"" Septemb"' 1614.

Concerning the for- lu tlis matter of the plan for the erection of a General Company to navigate wes't'india comp'a- and trade on some coasts of Africa, Terra Australis, America and elsewhere, trade lo some ooasis gigg t^g Charter for said Company, some were anew appointed from the Lords traiu, America &c. ^^^^ Cities, to communicate on and further discuss the subject, to examine the

draft of a Charter and its cons(^quences, and to render a report of the whole to the meeting; and they having first reported, that it was necessary for the promotion of the affair that the States General should pass an Act including the Trade to Guinea in the aforesaid Charter, the said Act is finally drawn up and concluded, as follows : -- " The States General of the United Netherlands having a understood the difficulty j Act appertainmg suggestcd on the paragraph of the draft of a General Company for the Coasts thereunto