All which Points and Articles the Director and Council shall be bound to observe and to follow, as closely as possible, regulating themselves further according to the Instructions heretofore given for the government of those countries, so far as they are not by these presents altered, or may not be hereafter changed, which power this Assembly reserves unto itself. Thus done and resolved in the Assembly of the XIX. of the General Incorporated West India Company in Amsterdam, in the year IG4o, the 7"" of July. Was paraphed. Hern van der Capellen toe Ryssel. Under -- By order of the same. (Signed) Gysbert Rxidolpht. Enregistered in the Acte-hock of the States General, on the 26 July, 1646.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: III. 168

Subjects for the Consideration of the Assemlly of the XIX. 1645.

[ From the Original in ll>s Eojal Archives at the Hague. ]

Points whereupon all the Chambers of the West India Company are summoned to meet at Middelburg on the 2""* of September 1645, extracted so far as relates to the affairs of New Netherland. Read the lo'"" of August, 1645. IS"- Point.

The Chambers will be pleased to instruct their deputies regarding the affairs of New Netherland, in order to resume the business of the 6"" and 7"" of July, and to resolve afterwards as shall be most serviceable and most advantageous for the Company.

14'\ What shall be done respecting the island of Cura9ao ; for it is certainly to be presumed that to maintain it as has been previously done,the Company. is And the too great a tax on Amsterdam Chamber which hath hitherto had the direction thereof, is requested to send its deputies prepared to give full explanation to serve for instruction in the resolution.