Received a from the Directors of the West India Company at the letter Chamber at Gronin- Chamber of the city of Groningen and Ommelanden, written at Groningen, Provisions for Bra- the 14"" iustant stilo loci, regarding the sending provisions to Brazil, and also the New Netherland. of New Netherland. affair Whereupon, deliberation being had, it is resolved and concluded that the aforesaid letter shall be placed in the hands of Mess" van Aertzbergea and other their High Mightinesses' deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, to inspect, examine and to report upon it.

382 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Resolution of the States General.

[From the Register of West India Affairs, 163S -- 1651, In the Eoyal ArehWea at the Hague.]

Friday, the 1" April 1650. Folio 543. On representation made to the Assembly by Mess" van Aertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, it is, after Pieter stuyvpsanL previous deliberation, resolved and concluded that Pieter Stuyvesant Director and the other Councillors in New iVetherland, shall be written to that their High Mightinesses are engaged in deliberation with the Directors of the West India Company on subjects appertaining Affairs or New *° ''^^ population and prosperity of New Netherland aforesaid, and meanwhile Neiheriand. j^^^^ licensed somc persons delegated hither from the Commonalty there, to return home, requiring him, Stuyvesant, and the other Councillors there not to trouble nor molest such persons, who came from New Netherland and will again return thither, for representations which may have been made here. And whereas it is considered necessary that the population now under consideration be favored and encouraged in every way, their High Mightinesses charge him, the Director, and Council to take care that the country be not divested of Guns, horses, cows, horses and cows, also that provisions be retained to supply arriving Colonists, and the inhabitants generally furnished with arms necessary for their defence, and the guns stamped ; the aforesaid New Netherland delegates being to that end allowed to purchase and carry over two hundred guns for distribution according to the order to be issued thereunto by their High Mightinesses; and to that end all inhabitants shall be forbidden henceforth to sell stamped guns and to export, or cause to be exported, any horses or cows without the permission of the Council.