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, ;

that the affairs of New Netherland be not only preserved, but likewise promoted, and that New Netherland may, by the most favorable conditions, be rendered agreeable to the inhabitants of

118 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. these countries. But as regards the trade of Guinea, no alteration shall be made therein, without their Higli Mightinesses' previous special consent. Further, their High Mightinesses have decided, in pursuance of their resolution of the 20"" September 1639, and the renewal thereof, v^hich follovped on the T"" November last, that the provinces of Guilderland, Zealand, Utrecht, Vriesland, and Overyssel, shall be again requested to consent to the augmentation of the capital which the States General invested in the aforesaid Company, and to introduce their resolution to that effect within the space of two months, or that their High Mightinesses shall then, after the aforesaid iterated request and prayer, be necessitated to allow the aforesaid capital to be increased by others, in order that the Company may be assisted by one or the other and the Deputies of the said Provinces have again undertaken to second, by their ;