N" 4.* Opinion of five Chambers, to wit, Amsterdam, N° 1 ; Zealand, 2 ; the Maaze, 3 ; North Quarter, 4; Groningen, 5. N° 5. General Report drawn up from the aforesaid opinions of the five Chambers. N" 6. Advice of the Lords of Holland, with remarks of the respective Chambers in the margin. N" 7. Advice of the Company's Chamber of Accounts, N" 8.* Statement of the Chamber of Accounts, respecting the salaries of Directors and their attendants. N" 9.* Plan of an honorable Patriot on the reduction of the Directors. N" 10.* Plan of the Chamber of Accounts for the saving of ten tons of gold ; rendered in June, 1645. N° 11.* Plan of Director Morthamer, for saving ninety-nine thousand guilders, in unnecessary services in Brazil. N" 12.* Plan of the Directors for the trade to Guinea, St. Thomas and the North coast of Africa. N° 13.* Statement of the Arrears of the subsidies amounting to seventy-four tons of gold and fifty-one thousand, six hundred and fifty-nine guilders.

222 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. N° 14.* Extract of Pieter van der Hagen's account of debts due the Company, to the amount of seventy-nine tons of gold. N° 15.* Commissions of the respective Chambers for the business respecting the redress of the West India Company.

(No. 5.) Memoir to serve for a general Report of the Directors deputed by the respective Chambers of the West India Company, in the matter of Superintendence, Retrenchment, Reform and Support of said Company, compiled from the special opinions rendered by said Chambers, and some resolutions adopted since the delivery of the same.