Whereupon deliberation being had, it is resolved and concluded that the guardians and heirs of Kiliaen van Renselaer shall be held, as they are hereby expressly ordered again within the space of eight days after the service hereof, to fulfill and obey their High Mightinesses' preceding order, on pain of deprivation of their right.

Resolution of the States General on a letter received from Director Stuyvesant.^

[ From the Regiiter of West India Affaire, 1633 --1651, in the Eojal Archives at the Hague. ]

Saturday 9"- October, 1649. Folio m. Received a duplicate of a despatch from Peter Stuyvesant, Director in New stuyvesant. Netherland, without date or place, containing an answer to their High Mightinesses' letter of the 28"" April last, transmitted to him Stuyvesant, in the matter of

'This letter, dated 10th of August, 1649, 13 omitted here, being a duplicate; the origiEal will be found, post, immediately preceding "Resolvtion of the Stales General" of the 2ffth Noyember, 1649.-- Ed.

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258 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Comclis Meljn condemned and relieved. Whereupon deliberation being had, it Cornelia Meiyn.

is resolved and decided before proceeding any farther herein, that the past transactions shall be

looked up and read to the Assembly, in order to proceed afterwards as may appertain.

TJie Nine Men of New Netherland to the States General. [ From the Original In'lhe Eoyal Archives at the Hague; Zoi-rftaj of the States General; Kubric West Indisehe C<mpngnie,'So. 30. Divition y Great, Powerful, High and Mighty Sovereigns. After our distressed circumstances had forced and obliged us to represent the poor condition of this country and to pray for redress therein, we considered it proper to delegate also some persons whom we know and acknowledge to be honorable, honest and trustworthy ;