Wf8t India Com- Wcst India Company of this country, whereby they maintain to have been '"'°^' injured ; claiming damages for their loss. Which being taken into consideration.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IL 83 it is resolved and concluded, that this matter shall, by extract hereof, be communicated to the present Directors, deputies o( the aforesaid Company, in order that they cause information to be taken as to the true merits of this case, and instruct the said Mr. Joachimi accordingly, that he may know how to comport himself In the premises.

Resolution of the States General respecting the Committee on the differences between the Company and the Patroons.

[From the Register of Kesolutions of the States General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague.]

Wednesday, 21" June, 1634. Folio 518. After deliberation, it is hereby resolved and concluded, to substitute Mr. Huygens, in Arnhem, (absent) to assist the other, their High Mightinesses' place of Mr. deputies, in investigating the questions and differences which have arisen between the Patroons, planters, on the one part, and the West India Company on the other; and further, to proceed according to the original Commission.

Patroons of New Netherland to the States General. June, 1634.

[From the Original, in the Royal Archives at the Hague, in the Loketkasof the States General; Division Wfst IndUche Compagnie. Loket K., Letter L., No. 6 part 5 of Bundle entitled " Stuklten raltende den Vryen handel op en in de Brazils. Ao 163S." ; ]

High and Mighty Lords. Whereas, in pursuance of the resolution dated 27th March, 1634, adopted at the Assembly of the XIX., and the petition presented to your High Mightinesses and posliled {graixisiillecrt), the Patroons of New Netherland are, by their High Mightinesses' letters dated 13th May following, cited to appear at the Hague; the Patroons have deemed it expedient to submit to your High MiglUinesses: That your High Mightinesses, by Charter dated 3d June, 1621, granted to all inhabitants,