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. First, the Management in regard to Navigation and Trade.

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Secondly, Retrenchment and redress; and Thirdly, Means of support; and that upon all these points very good suggestions have been made in the vs^ritten Memoir of the aforesaid joint or general advice of the deputed Directors of the respective Companies whereunto they refer, except that certain articles relating to hostility or enmity shall cease in time of peace.