We further charge and command all admirals, lieutenants and vice-admirals, captains, lieutenants, commanders and common soldiers and sailors, being directly in Our service, and in that of the General Incorporated West India Company of this country to afford and lend to the afore-named Joachim Pietersz. Cuyter and Cornelis Melyn in the prosecution of their aforesaid voyage to New Netherland, all help, assistance and address, and to this end to convey and transport them as passengers, and at their own cost, in the respective ships under their comnaand, if by them thereunto requested; also, to land them whereseover the aforesaid ships

shall have designed to go and their voyage lies, on pain, of acting contrariwise, of incurring Our highest indignation, for such We have found expedient. Given at the Hague in Our Assembly, under Our Seal, paraph and the Signature of our Greffier, on the vi. May, 164S.

Resolution of the States General on the Treaties, cfec, entered into ly the West India Company.

[ From the Begiater of Weit India affain, 163S -- 1651, in the Bojral Archives at the Hague. ]

Thursday, 27"» August, 1648. Folio 424. In fulfillment of their High Mightinesses' resolution of the 14"" instant, and the letters of the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company consequent thereupon,

254 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Copies of autheniio Directof de Laet delivered unto the Assembly authentic copies of such treaties, treaties, ponlracts,

Princes^and Pmelf' contracts and capitulations as the said West India Company hath made and ^^^'- concluded with the Kings, Princes and Potentates within the limits of their Charter. Whereupon deliberation being had, it is resolved and concluded that the aforesaid authentic copies be locked up and preserved.