All these aforesaid acts and declarations have I, the undersigned Notary, found, after comparison to agree with their originals; at the Hague the 5"" February A°. 1650. Me teste. (Signed) M. Beeckman, Notar Publ.

Resolution of the States General, referring the preceding papers.

[ From the Kegiater of Weal India Affairs, 1633--1651, in the Enyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, S"' February, 1650. Folio B29. The petition of Cornelis Melyn, patroon on Staten Island in New Netherland, is after previous deliberation placed, with the pieces thereunto annexed, in the Cornelia Melyn.

hands of Mess" van Aertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the West India Company's affairs, in order to inspect and examine them, and to hear again and again the petitioner and Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven actually here at the Hague, and to render a report of the whole to their High Mightinesses.

Secretary van Tienhoven''s Observations on the Boundary and Colonization of New Netherland. [ From the Original in the Eoyal Archivea at the Hague Locketkas of the States General ; ; Division, West ItidisOu! Compagnte, No. 30 ; 8th division of the liundle. ]

Observations on the settlement of the boundary, and on the colonization of New Netherland. Furnished 22** February, 1650.

The settlement of the boundary is highly necessary, in order to avoid, in future, all difficulties with those of New England and Virginia ; it will also promote the quiet of the Dutch Nation in New Netherland, as many would be thereby encouraged to undertake Colonies, Bouweries and Plantations, in that country. This settlement of the boundary was, in my opinion, not easy to be obtained before the present time, in consequence of the troubles in England ; the rather, as those of Virginia declare for Charles the Second, and those of New England for the Parliament.