It is after previous deliberation, resolved and concluded, to postpone this mattter for tveelve days; and parties shall, in the meanwhile, endeavor to settle their differences by agreement and mutual accord and if not, their High Mightinesses will, at the end of the aforesaid time, have the said difference decided by their Deputies agreeably to the aforesaid resolution of authority thereunto granted.

Subjects for the Consideration of the Assembly of the XIX, 1634.

[From the Original in the Royal ArchiTes at the Hague ; File, TTmI Indie. ]

Points of Reference, whereupon all the Chambers of the West India Company

are summoned to Amsterdam on the 31 July, 1634; extracted as far as relates to the matters of New Netherland. Exhibited 18 July, 1634.

S* Point. As Ambassador Joachimi hath advised the Company of the claims of Jacob Eelkens, who sailed from England, amounting to 40 (^ 50 thousand guilders, which he pretends to have lost in New Netherland, the members will be pleased to come prepared to resolve thereupon, according as it shall be most advantageous to the Company.

The Assembly of the XIX. to the States General.

[ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ; File, West Indie.^

To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands. High and Mighty Lords. The year 1634 approaches now to a close, and the West India Company hath not, up to the present time, received the vote of the subsidy demanded by the Council of State, many months since, for its support for that year. Notwithstanding the Deputies from the XIX. have, with such great persistence, applied to your High Mightinesses therefor, from time to time.