We also respectfully request you, High and Mighty, to be pleased to receive further information from our Deputies, who will High Mightinesses, and therein to vouchsafe them favorable present this to your audience and full Thereupon awaiting your High Mightinesses' favorable resolution, credit.

which is most necessary, we shall meanwhile. High and Mighty Lords, pray God for the continual success of your High Mightinesses' prosperous government. Your High Mightinesses most humble Servants, The Directors of the West India Company at Amsterdam, Amsterdam, this 23 April, 1644. (Signed) Jacob Hamel. Received 27"' April, 1G44. Marcus de Vogelaer.

Resolution of the States General, referring the preceding Letter.

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

Wednesday, 27 April 1644. Folio 116. Appeared in the Assembly some Directors from divers Chambers of the West compalf/.^'""""' India Company, and by the moutii of one of the Advocates of said Company proposed to their High Mightinesses, and subsequently submitted in writing, what is Proposal. substantially se't forth in the proposition hereinafter inserted. And the aforesaid Directors also delivered, besides, to their High Mightinesses a certain letter from the Directors of the abovenamed West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, written there the 23^ instant, being an answer to their High Mightinesses' despatch of the S"" of the present month,

Affairs of New respecting the affairs of New Netherland ; which being considered, the Provinces Neiheriand. dcsired copy of the aforesaid proposition, as well as of the said letter which was granted them.