It is, after previous deliberation, resolved and concluded that the aforesaid Articles and Conditions be placed in the hands of Mess" Arnhem, Noortwyck, Vosbergen, Weede, Pruyssen, Donckel and Conders, to view and examine them and to report. The said Deputies of their High Mightinesses may proceed forthwith thereupon.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: II. 115

Re-solution of the States General^ on the precedbig Articles and Conditions. [ From the Register of West India affairs, 163S-- 1651, in the Koyal Archives at the Hague.]

Thursday, 2 September, 1638. Foiio 9. Heard the report of Mess" Arnhem, Noortwyck, Vosbergen, Weede, Donckel and Conders ( M"' Pruyssen having gone away) who, pursuant to their High Mightinesses' Conditions and Ar- resolution of the SO"" of August last, viewed and examined the Articles and tides, according to which New Nether- Conditions agreed to by the Amsterdam Chamber, with the approbation of their land IS to be resort- o j rr '

®^"'- High Mightinesses, according to which the respective countries and places in New Netherland and its circumjacents should henceforth be traded to, frequented and inhabited. Also is submitted and exhibited to the Assembly another New Project,' likewise proposed on the aforesaid subject. Which being taken into deliberation, their High Mightinesses have resolved and concluded to hereby declare that the aforesaid Articles, drawn up by the Amsterdam Chamber, are, in their present form, not adapted to the service and promotion of the Colonies of New Netherland and their High Mightinesses, therefore, resolved that the said drafted ;

Articles and Conditions be again returned to Sieur Johan de Laet, Director of the West India Company, to which is to be adjoined the aforesaid New Project, to be communicated to the Chamber of the West India Company at Amsterdam, and to tell it, on the part of their High Mightinesses, to send some deputies hither by Monday next, the vi"" instant, in order that the entire case of New Netherland may be further viewed and examined with their High Mightinesses' former deputies their joint considerations on the aforesaid subject then to be ;