The receipts herefrom still keep the Company alive, and furnish means for the equipments and cargoes for these and other coasts. 4. At the request of your High Mightinesses' delegates, something has been proposed by the General Board of Accounts for the support of the Company; namely, 10'= 63 M. guilders yearly ; out of which, they say, the six per cent per annum can be paid. The Chambers have taken the proposition with them in order to resolve thereupon at the next Assembly of the XIX., in Zealand. (No. 1.) 5. Those responsible to the Company for the domains, provisions, ammunition, will not keep their accounts henceforward according to the Italian mode, but according to order; the public receivers and clerks shall account to the Council of state. 6. Something has been done respecting the supreme government in Brazil, agreeably to the resolutions of the 14''" of December, 1644, and 14"" of April, 1645, Nos. 2 and 3. Four Councillors have been nominated to the supreme government of Brazil; but they have given in some considerations whereon they demand explanation. The nomination and proposing of the President also remain unsettled; all these, as well as the establishment of the Board of accounts in Brazil, and the departure of the delegates to the supreme government, will be arranged at the first meeting of the Assembly of the Nineteen, at Zealand.

158 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. The promised subsidies of the state are most necessary for the support of the West India 7.