previous deliberation, resolved and concluded, that this remonstrance be placed in the hands of their High Mightinesses' Deputies, who are to preside at the approaching Assembly of the XIX. of the above named Company, at Middelburg, in Zealand, to the end that the petitioner, by their means and intercession, may be aided in obtaining reasonable satisfaction from the above named Company, in regard of his aforesaid claims.

Resolution of the States General, instructing their Deputies.

[ From the Register of West India affairs, 1633--1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, IS" March, 1640. The report being read of Mess" Arnhem, Noortwyck, Croock, Amerongen, Walta Folio 80.

and Aldringa, (Mr. Ripperda absent) who viewed and examined, pursuant to their High Reference of the Mightinesscs' rcsolutiou of the 31" January last, the points of reference of the xlx. West India Company, sent over by the Chamber at Amsterdam to their High Mightinesses, to the end that the XIX. of the said Company should meet thereupon within said city. It is, after previous deliberation, resolved and concluded that their High Mightinesses' Deputies to the Assembly of the XIX., shall assist in deliberating, advising and concluding on the aforesaid points, as they shall find for the advantage of the country in general, and the West India Company in particular. But said Deputies are most especially enjoined to attend to the fifth point of the aforesaid reference, and to take care that no abuses be practiced under cover or occasion thereof, nor that any incovenience proceed from it also, ;