West Indies, with the advice of his Council ; and the petitioners are further allowed and granted liberty to return to New Netherland aforesaid, and free and unmolested to use and enjoy their property there, the same as other Colonists and inhabitants, pending the case in appeal; and letters shall be addressed to the present commander and mutatis mutandis, to the government there, that they leave the parties unmolested and in the enjoyment of their High Mightinesses' resolution ; with this understanding that this shall not be drawn into precedent, to the prejudice of the charter granted to the West India Company of this country.

States General to Director Stuyvesant.

[From the BegUter of TJUgegant Brieven of the States 0eneral, in the Royal Archives at the Hague.]

To the Director in New Netherland, 28"" April, 1648, and mutatis mutandis to the government in New Netherland.

The States General, &c. Folio 88. Honorable, &c. We have this day heard and considered the report of Mess" our Deputies, who, pursuant to our previous resolutions of the xi January last, and of the 9"" instant, have investigated and examined the several petitions presented unto us, in the name and on the behalf of Jochum Pieters Cuyter and Cornelis Melyn Cuyter and Melyn. also the papers thereunto ;

annexed; and after previous deliberation have, consequently, granted the petitioners provision of appeal, with the clause suspending the respective sentences pronounced against them, on the 24 July, of the year 1647, with the advice of his Council, by Peter Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, within the limits of the West India Company and We have, moreover, ;