West Friesland and the North Quarter are of opinion, if aflfairs be redressed and brought in train according to their advice, that the Company will be sufficiently able to exist of itself. 8. Stadt en Land' requires only payment of the subsidies in arrear, in addition to the general means hereinbefore mentioned. These are, in fact, three points whereupon run the opinions of the respective Chambers each in an especial manner; except that the Zealand Chamber gave, in addition, its opinion on the articles of the old Charter, as they ought, in their estimation, be altered and improved.

Advice of the Deputies of Holland, with the opinions of the several Chambers.

N" 6. Advice of the Deputies of Holland.

Redress, Retrenchment, Subsistence and Trade.

To the Noble, Great and Mighty Lords, the States of Holland and Westfriesland.

Noble, great and Mighty Lords

1.

The Members deputed at the Meeting of your The present deputed Directors of the Great Mightinesses by your resolution of the respective Chambers of the West India

' See Note, mpra, p. 103. -- Ed.

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1" July, 1647, to attend to the establishment Company, having pursuant to the order of the of good and proper order in the government of deputies of the High and Mighty Lords States the Incorporated West India Company, and General, examined the annexed advice, have the redress of all such matters and abuses as adjoined thereunto, as their opinions, vphat might have been found to exist to the prejudice stands noted in the margin on each point of said Company, having heard the verbal thereof. information of the present deputed Directors of the aforesaid Company, and read and examined the vpritten remonstrance to them delivered -- Item, the respective written opinions of each of the five Chambers of said Company in particular, and of all its Chambers conjointly or in common; also of the deputies of the General Chamber of accounts of the abovementioned Company, all delivered in to the High and Mighty Lords States General of these United Netherlands in pursuance of their High Mightinesses' order and letter of the 30"" March, 1647; Find, that for the restoration of the West India Company, three chief points are principally to be considered, to vpit.