Therefore their High Mightinesses, after previous deliberation, have resolved and concluded on the first point, hereby to instruct and authorize their deputies to the Assembly of the XIX., that in conjunction with the present delegates from the respective Chambers to said Assembly, they assist in making and enacting such order, that Divine Worship in Brazil be duly attended to,church ordinance and discipline introduced and practiced, and the rising youth educated and brought up in the fear of the Lord and in the Christian Reformed religion. On the second point, their High Mightinesses have resolved and concluded, that before the present delegates from the respective Chambers to the aforesaid present Assembly of the XIX. adjourn, their High Mightinesses' deputies shall assist in making and enacting such effectual order regarding the population of New Netherland, and thereunto invite all good inhabitants of these Netherlands by such inducements and pre-eminences as, with the approbation of their High Mightinesses, they shall resolve to offer to all colonists, so that this State may not be deprived of the aforesaid New Netherland, by any indirect underhand dealing of some inhabitants of this country, and the intrusion and invasion of those of foreign princes and potentates.

Report on the Condition of the Colony of New Netherland, in 1638. [ From the Original in the Koj-al A rchives at the Hague Loketkas of the Stales General : ; Division, Vest Indische Oompagnie, No. 8. ]

leV^he^Aw^mbiy Whcreas the Lords States General obtain unreliable information on the h^beenVevS? affairs of New Netherland; that it is retrograding more and more, to the injury afore Jfd'to'ihe DiS of thls State and its inhabitants, it is demanded: paties Noortwvfe Uuyst van Voor hout, Tienhovei and &warzenberg.