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,

stockholders in the within named Company exclusively, the navigation, peopling and trade to the West Indies, within the limits therein described, investing XIX. persons with the entire management thereof; expressly stipulating, that your High Mightinesses, on being required to prosecute the infraction and contravention of such public resolutions, shall cause the same to be repaired and maintained. But the principal having solicited your High Mightinesses for further stockholders satisfaction, your High Mightinesses, by amplification, agreed and approved that the first two vacancies in the Board of Directors at Amsterdam and Zealand item, the first in the ;

Maese Chamber, should successively be supplied by the principal stockholders of the respective

;

84 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Chambers, leaving them to protect whatever regarded lliem and their right, both in the Assembly of the XIX. and in tiie aforesaid Chambers. The Company, reduced to this firm order and government, took specially to heart your High Mightinesses' motives contained in the last part of the second capital article of the Charter, containing two subjects namely, contracting and forming alliances with princes and ;