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.

Folio 863. The business transacted and returned by the aforesaid respective Chambers, General Report. jg founded On a Certain letter of the High and Mighty Lords States General, dated S"* March, 1847, and referring, according to the tenor thereof, to three points especially: superintendency, First poiut. Of superiutcndance ; second point. Of retrenchment and reform; ccoDomy and re- , . , . ^^ tmm. third point, Oi support.

First point --Of Superintendenck. What relates to superintendence. It was heretofore considered, that it had reference particularly and exclusively to the the trade and commerce prosecuted by the Company, or by individuals with the Company's permission, within the limits and districts of the charter, whence have arisen a great many disputes up to this time among the Chambers but such ;

order has at present been provisionally made therein, as can be deduced from the following. The principal place of trade is Brazil, respecting which, the deputed Directors resolved on the G"* July, 1647, that said coast shall continue to be frequented and traded to, in the manner and order heretofore in force, to witthat the trade shall be free and open to all, on condition, :