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

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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 ;

natives of the countries within their limits, or promoting the population of productive and uninhabited regions. E.xperience has shown that the prudent management of the Company did not attend the attempts to carry this out in divers quarters, both on the Wild coast and in New Nelheriand the conduct of the people was not regulated; the expenses were excessively high, and the want of success beyond expectation. The accounts having been frequently reviewed at the Assembly of the XIX.; the supfilies requisite for the planting having been compared with the returns received from the Colonies, it was finally decreed and enacted, at the Assembly of the XiX., on the 10"" March, 162S, in the presence of your High Mightinesses' deputies, the Directors delegated by the respective Chambers, the Directors and assessors from the principal stockholders, for the behoof of ail the stockholders in the said Company, by virtue of the Charter, to draw up Freedoms and Exemptions, for the benefit of the General West India Company, and advantage of the Patroons, masters and private persons. 2(i February, 1629. Commissioners reported to the Assembly of the XIX., and it was resolved to make an Order, resuming the draft of the planters, at the next ensuing meeting; to consider the proposals of certain respectable principal stockholders, to draw out the differenlial points and refer them to the Chambers.