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.

Proceedings of the Assembly of the XIX. in regard to JVew, Netherland. 1645.

[ From the Copy In the Eoyal Archives at the Hagne Loketkaa of the States General ; ; Division, West Indische Compagnie, No. 17.]

Extracts from the Resolutions of the Assembly of the XIX. of the West India Company, holden at Middelburg, from the Q"" of September to the 16"" of October, 1645, as far as tliey relate to the affairs of New Netherland.

Tuesday, the 21^' September, 1G45. The opinion of the before mentioned deputies being heard, it is, after divers discourses between the members from Amsterdam and other Chambers, concluded and resolved, inasmuch as some Clergymen are about to return home from Brazil, that they be permitted to return, and that the number of those who shall remain there be limited to nine persons, to wit: one for each ninth part, to be distributed by the President and Supreme Council among the principal places where the hearers are most numerous, and their services shall be most advantageous. And that the smaller places shall be served by precentors, comforters of the sick, and schoolmasters who shall offer up public prayers, read aloud from the old and new testament, from printed sermons, and tune the psalms.