Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded, that the cargo of the said ship the Fame shall be regulated as regards the duties, in the same way as those of tlie PVench, English, Danish and other foreign nations that bring and discharge such or similar cargoes here ; to wit, the ordinary import duties, and in addition eight per cent, both made over among other things to the West India Company of these ports, in place of subsidies; all in conformity to the S"" Article of their High Mightinesses' regulation of the 16"" October, 1637, and their confirmatory resolution of the 24"" July 1641 following thereupon.

Resolution of the States General on a letter from the Patroon of Staten Island.

[ From the Register of TVeat India Affairs, 1633--1651, in the Koyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Thursday, 20"' October, 1644. Folio 181. The letter of Cornelis Melyn, styling himself Patroon at Staten Island, without Staten Island. (Jato or place, addressed to Mr. van Nederhorst ; also, a certain petition of the same, dated Manahattas, 6"" August last, regarding the distressed condition of affairs there, is, after previous consideration, placed in the hands of Messrs. van der Capellen, and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies to the Assembly of the XIX. of the West India Company, with power to inform themselves of, and investigate the real merits and state of the aforesaid representation, and afterwards assist in making such order therein as the interests of the country in general, and those of the said Company in particular, shall require.