Rensclaer, niinor son of Kiliaen van Renselaer, again praying their High Mightinesses to be pleased to dispose of their, the petitioners', previous petition respecting the solicited investiture of the Colonic Renselaer's Wyck, in New Netherland, and the violence which Director Stuyvesant is committing against them. Whereupon deliberation being had, it is resolved and concluded, to place the aforesaid petition in the hands of Messrs. Huygens and the other, their High Mightinesses' deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, for inspection, examination and conference with the Directors of said West India Company, at present here, and to report on the whole subject.

Answer of Secretary van Tienlioven to Cornelis MelyrHs Complaint.

[From the Original in the Eoyal Archieves at the Hague ; LockeOcaa of the States General ; Division West Indiiche, Compagnie No. 2S.]

[l. S.] To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands:

Cornelis van Tienhoven, specially empowered by the Director and Council of New Netherland to maintain before your High Mightinesses, in their name, a certain penal judgment pronounced, on the 17th July, 1647, by the aforesaid Director and his Council against the said Cornelis Melyn, having had communication of a certain petition and its annexed documents

referred by your High Mightinesses' order to him, Tienhoven, to answer thereunto in which ;

petition the aforesaid Melyn, after a very impertinent and particularly false narrative, simply requests of your High Mightinesses in substance, inasmuch as your High Mightinesses have been pleased to admit him in appeal from the judgment aforesaid and as the said Cornelis van Tienhoven had come over to this country and was residing at the Hague for the purpose of defending the same on behalf of the abovementioned Director and Council, that your High Mightinesses would be pleased to assign the said Tienhoven time and place for him to make his appearance and to take cognizance of such demand and conclusion as he, Melyn, should present and take against the aforesaid van Tienhoven, in his aforesaid quality.