We, the undersigned, having appeared at the Fort at the request of the Hon'''' Director and Council, to express our opinions on their proposition, they have required us to elect five or six persons from among ourselves to weigh maturely the articles laid before us ; wherefore

have we considered it wise on so doing to leave to the Director and Council the execution thereof; namely, the selection of those persons, provided that we shall be at liberty to reject the person or persons against whom there may be anything to object, and who are not agreeable to us. CoRNELis Melyn, Pieter Linde, This is the mark 4/) of Wolphert Gerrits,

This is the mark p of Bakent Dircksen, Jan Snedeker, Sibert Clasen, Abram Planck, Cornelis Wiletnsen, This is the mark f of Louis Grain,'

' See cnpra, p. 189. Ed.

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This is the mark p of Laurens Pietersen, This is the mark jg of Jan Haer, This is the mark X^ of Thomas Sanderson,

This is the mark ^^ of Isack de Forest, Albert Jansen, Peter Colet, This is the mark T of Tevnis Cray, This is the mark O" --r f,of Jacob Stoffelsen,

CoRNELis Willemsen, Pieter Linde,

This is the mark (S« of Claes Carstersen,

John Pathaway, Ritchert Gebbers, This is the mark ^ of Piccis,

This is the mark ^ of Abraham Jacobsen,

Jacob Couwenhoven, Reiner Jansen, Jan Verbrugh, This is the mark ^ of Wolphert Gerritsen,