We are now and always ready, when 'tis your High Mightinesses' pleasure, to exhibit and produce the papers and letters, mentioned on the fifth instant, in your High Mightinesses' Assembly, 7 March, 1G50. Received 12 March, 1650.

Petition of the Delegates from New Netherland. [ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ; Lokelkas of the States General ; Eubric West Indlsche Compagnie, No. 30 ; Uth divleion of the Bundle. ]

To the Honorable Mighty Lords, the Lords Alexander van der Cappellen of Heraertsbergen and the other their High Mightinesses' deputies on the redress of New Netherland.

Honorable, Mighty Lords. The Delegates of the Commonalty in New Netherland respectfully represent: as the ship de Valckenier now lies ready to sail on her departure for New Netherland, and full one hundred and forty persons have offered to own expense, and have emigrate to that country at their been accepted, and upwards of thirty persons additional have solicited and requested as still

a passage in said ship, who must be refused, because there is not accommodation in the vessel for them, she being not more than a hundred and sixty lasts burthea or thereabouts. The skipper and owners of said vessel further declare that, had they six times more accommodation or ships, they would all be filled; so that in the hope of better government, more passengers begin to set their faces towards New Netherland, according as passage and opportunity offer. As this tends greatly to the peopling and prosperity of that Province, we, therefore, are unwilling to neglect directing your Mightinesses' attention to it, requesting you to be pleased