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, ;

granted to and allowed the petitioners liberty, pending the case in appeal, to return hence to New Netherland aforesaid, and free and unmolested to enjoy and use their property there, the same as other Colonists and inhabitants ; of all which We have resolved hereby to advise Vol. T. 32

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you, and to you, that you shall allow the aforesaid petitioners to act order and charge unmolested and peaceably to enjoy the full effect of these, Our good designs and intentions, without failing in any way therein. Done 28"" April, 1648.

Mandamus in Case of the Appeal of Messrs. Ciiyter and Alelyn. [From the AcU-boek of the States General, In the Eoyal Archirea at the Hague. ]

Mandamus in case of appeal with suspensory clause for Jochem Pietersz Cuyter and Cornells Melyn, inhabitants of New Netherland.