(Endorsed) Remarks of the West India Chamber at Amsterdam on the Provisional Order on the government, preservation and peopling of New Netherland. 11 April, 1650.

Provisional order respecting the govern- Remarks of the Amsterdam Chamber. ment, preservation and peopling of 11 April, 1650.

New Netherland. Messrs. van Aertsbergen and the other your The Directors of the West India Company High Mightinesses' Committee on West India Chamber at Amsterdam being ordered to affairs having been for some months past in make their observations on the annexed conference with the Directors delegated by writing, state their opinion thereupon as it is

the Chamber at Amsterdam and others of the here inserted. West India Company on matters brought before your High Mightinesses both by the Committee from New Netherland and the Director there, from and on behalf of, the people, in divers written and verbal remonstrances and Memorials, have at the request The Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber of the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber respectfully deny that they made the request consented to pass over divers matters contained mentioned, but indeed that they on the contrary in the Great Remonstrance of the People, were requested to refute those people's

and to apply themselves to the principal abusive representations; who 'tis notorious points, on the expressed assurance from the were not willing to subscribe their written

aforesaid Directors, that they would receive all deduction in presence of their High Mightijust and respectful representations. And to nesses' deputies.

this end, having inquired into the system of government hitherto maintained in New Netherland, the heavy burdens which the Company hath in consequence borne, and the small profit derived therefrom, the impeding The Directors request proof wherein or of the population, the neglect in applying whereby population has been impeded remedies to errors and excesses; and con- or hindered by them.