Wherefore We do request and order the aforementioned General Incorporated West India Company, to instruct and command the Governors, or Commanders and Council, who now are, or shall hereafter be in New Netherland, and moreover, all others whom it may in any wise concern, conjointly and each in particular, as it may behoove him, to maintain and perfect the testament, order and last will of the abovenamed petitioner, as he will have made, or yet will make it, and as it now by Us is ratified and confirmed as aforesaid ; and whomsoever he, by his testament and last will, hath given and granted the aforesaid feudal estate, or shall have made, assigned, or yet may make, give or assign, any rents or usufructs to, the same to allow and permit the quiet and peaceable use and enjoyment thereof, without causing or allowing him at any time to experience any let, hindrance or molestation therein to the contrary. Given under Our seal, paraph, and the signature of Our Greffier, in the Hague, on the 5"> of February, 1641.

Minutes of the AssemUy of XIX. respecting New Netherland.

[ From the MS. Folio bound in Vellam, in tlie Eoyal Archives at the Hague, among the EeporU of the West India Company. ]

Extract of a Report made to the States General, of the business transacted at the Assembly of the XIX. of the West India Company, at Amsterdam, in the year 1642.

Monday, 3"* March, J 642. Is also opened a paket of letters received from Cura§ao, through New Netherland, wherein is one from Jan Claessen van Campen, Director at Curagao, without date or place, with some enclosures. One from Director William Kieft, from New Netherland, dated 7"" January, 1642. And another from John van der Hil,i from New Netherland, dated 6"" January, 1642. ' Capt.