Points of Reference, whereon all the Chamber of the West India Company are summoned to Middleburg for the S?"" September, 1638 ; extracted so far as relate to the affairs of New Netherland. Exhibited, g"" September, 1638. 17"> Point.

They shall come prepared to attend to, resume, and if necessary amend, the management of New Netherland, Curasao, Cape de Verd, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Wild Coast, Fernando Noronho, and Colonies planted here and there, and for that purpose, bring with them all books and papers for information.

' See supra, p 90. -- Ed.

IIG NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Resolution of the States General, to ixiy Kiliaea Van liensselaer his Accoxmt. [ From the Register of ResolutionB of the States General, remaining in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Friday, 28"" January, 1639. Foi. 2s. Presented and read to the Assembly the account of Kiliaen Van Renselaer and cienck, George Everard Klenck, ordered by their High Mightinesses in February, 1637, to come hither, amounting to forty-three guilders and four stivers. After previous deliberation, it is resolved and concluded that an order for the aforesaid sura shall be issued on the above accoupt,

Directors of the Enchhuyzen Chamber of the West India Company to the States General.

[ From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague ; File, Wist Indie. ]

High and Mighty Lords. Your High Mightinesses' letter, dated 31" December, 1638, with the annexed memorial of the Hon^'''= M'^ Spieringh, Resident of the Crown of Sweden, was handed to us on the 13"" instant, but the previous one, dated 25"' October, has not been received. As soon as we had seen the tenor of your High Mightinesses' said letter, we were prepared to obey your High Mightinesses' order and command, and with that view, sent an express immediately to Medenblick, which brings us the following information :