Spieringh's memorial and of the pieces thereunto appended, this day presented to us, which we have hereby resolved to send to you, desiring and requesting that the said laden goods and merchandise of the aforesaid two ships, may be discharged without making any further difficulty therein; our previously repeated resolution and order remaining in force and effect, respecting the eight per cent in question, hereinbefore imposed and exacted on all other such wares and merchandise for the benefit of your Company. Whereupon, relying, etc. Done 21« of April, 1645.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IIL 157

Report on tlie Proceedings of the Assembly of the XIX. 1645.

[ From the Original In the Boyal Archives at the Hagne ; File, Tr««< Indie. \

Summary Report rendered by Mess" Van der Capellen toe Ryssel, Herbers and Nykerk, of the principal matters that occurred in the Assembly of the Nineteen, at Amsterdam, since March, 1645. Exhibited IS"" of July, 1645.

1.Order was introduced last December, in the respective possessions of Brazil, Guinea, Angola, the island of St. Thomas, New Netherland, and answers thereto have been received by the ships which arrived in June, 1645. Every thing is, by God's blessing, in a good condition; and in consequence of the employment of the negroes, which were from time to time introduced from Angola into Brazil, in planting grain, flour is produced in such quantity that what used to always cost S to 10 guilders, still contintes to be sold at the low rate of six stivers, wherefore the Supreme Council now have written to send from here half as much flour as used heretofore to have been conveyed thither. 2. Orders have been made by this Assembly for the aforesaid possessions of the Company; letters have now been sent over to the Directors in those countries on the subject. 3.