HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 387

On the 13 December, Anno 1649, the Hon'''* Mr. Dincklagen protests in Council against the Hon''''= Director Stuyvesant and Arent van Corlaer, in the name of their High Mightinesses, the Lord Prince of Orange and the Hon'''* West India Company, for having exported horses by the ship, the Prins, to Barbadoes, as Corlaer exhibits no license from their High Mightinesses, or the Hon'''* Lords Majors. Dated as aforesaid. (Signed) L. van Dincklagen.

Agrees with the Book of Resolutions of the Council holden in fort Amsterdam,

by the Hon'''' Director General and Council of Nevp Netherland. (Signed) Jacob Kip, Clerk.

Heport of the Committee of the States General on the Affairs of New Netherland. [ From the MS. in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague Lokftkas of the States General ; ; Eubric West Indische Oompagnie, No. 30 ; ICth divisicn of the Bundle. 1

Provisional Order respecting the Government, Preservation and Peopling of New Netherland. Messrs. van Aertzbergen and the other your High Mightinesses' Committee on West India affairs, having been for some months in conference with the Directors delegated by the Chamber at Amsterdam and others of the West India Company, on matters brought before your High Mightinesses, both by the Delegates from New Netherland and tlie Directors there, from and on behalf of the People, in divers written and verbal remonstrances and memorials, have, at the request of the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber, consented to pass over divers matters contained in the Great Reeonstrance of the People, and to apply themselves to the principal points, on the express assurance from the aforesaid Directors that they would receive all just and respectful representations. And to this end, having inquired into the system of government hitherto maintained in New Netherland, the heavy burtlieiis which the Company hath in con.sequence borne, and the small profii. derived therefrom, the destruction of the population, the neglect in applying remedies to errors and excesses; and, considering that your High Mightinesses cannot, and ought not any longer approve of the perverse administration of the privileges and benefits granted by charter to the stockliolders of the West India Company; of the commissioners of New Netherland, under the authority of the Chamber at Amsterdam, neglecting or opposing the good plans and offers submitted for the security of the boundaries and the increase of the population of the country: And whereas your High Mightinesses, as sovereigns over your subjects, are well qualified, nay, bound to see that the property of the latter, (still in a condition to be saved and improved if no time be lost and good care be taken) shall not be allowed to go to ruin or fall into the hands of others ; Therefore, we, your High Mightinesses' Committee, are of opinion that the preservation of those countries and benefits, which were originally granted by your High Mightinesses not to the Directors of the Chamber at Amsterdam, but to all the stockholders of the West India Company scattered throughout the Provinces, demands other orders than those issued