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.

Company, in this its backward and feeble condition. The Company's shares had been down to 43 and 44, when your High Mightinesses first commenced the reform of its abuses in August, 1G44. And when the Merchants and stockholders perceived the commencement of the reform, the shares advanced to 5S. The opponents of the Company brought the shares down again namely, to 44 and 45, ;

when your High Mightinesses extended, in May of this year, the Charters of the East and West India Companies these opponents misrepresenting and giving a false coloring to your ;

High Mightinesses favor, by reporting at Amsterdam that your High Mightinesses will not contribute any more to the support of the West India Company that such was evident from ;

the fact that your High Mightinesses had extended both Charters, notwithstanding the Directors of the West India Company had been so long at the Hague, soliciting the means of subsistence from your High Mightinesses. 8. Some steps have been taken in New Netherland, to conciliate the Indians, by means of