The Directors of the West India Company say, that heretofore eachPatroon of the Colonies in New Netherland, hath given in his separate remonstrance to the Assembly of the Nineteen, with request that the aforesaid Assembly dispose thereof; it can therefrom be seen that the pretensions of the aforesaid Patroons ditfer, and are even erected on different foundations, so that they cannot be well, nor speedily nor regularly arranged, much less treated of, in one suit in the name of all the Patroons. The Directors aforenamed, therefore, maintain that each of the said Patroons shall be bound to institute his suit separately, with vouchers, and therein what he hath, both in general and in particular, against the Company, and afterwards set forth draw pertinent conclusion. And in order that a termination be put at once to said differences, that the above mentioned Patroons be obliged to mention, in their respective demands all, as well general as particular, questions of which they have any knowledge, and on which they may intend to institute any action against the aforesaid Company, on pain, in default thereof, of their being and remaining nonsuited, as they might be, if the Directors had obtained a mandamus on the motions (vantisenj of the aforesaid Patroons, to have suit instituted, pursuant to the text in L diffamari C. de ingen. et manum. Nevertheless, if the aforesaid Patroons declare that they have no particular claim against the aforesaid Company, and will not institute any action on account thereof, and desire and expect only a decision on the general points which concern the aforesaid Patroons conjointly ; the Directors will not make any opposition to the examining and deciding the claim regarding the said general points by them conjointly instituted, saving the aforesaid Company's exception and defence to the contrary. (Signed), Albert Kounraut Burgh.