HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : I. 37 Thus, the Company's capital is greater at tliis time, by two millions, than it was at that period; besides, experience has given it more knowledge as to the condition of the places

West Indies and tiie Brazils; what are useful or useless to the Company in that situate in the country; what can, and what cannot, be defended; all which is of great advantage to tlie Company and the country.

lie-solution of the States General appointing Deputies to the Assembly of the XIX. [ From the Origiual Register in the Royal ArcbiveB at the Hague. ]

Resolution of the States General of the lO"" October, 1626, appointing, as their High Mightinesses' Deputy in the Assembly of the XIX. of the West India Company, M' Pietcr Janss tichagen, the writer of the earliest information relative to the Colony of New Netherland, of the 7"" November, 1626.

Saturday, the lO"" Octob--, 1626. Received from the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, a letter dated the 7"" inst., wherein they advise, that for divers weighty reasons and considerations,

affecling the welfare and prosperity of the Company, they have summoned the Assembly of the XIX. for the l?"" inst., to proceed to business on Monday, the 19"", requesting their High Mightinesses would be pleased to send their Deputy thither for the said day, to assist said Assembly with their authority and wise council. Whereupon, deliberation being had, they thereunto commissioned Mess" Hendrick van Eck and Schagen.