LrrchiiJr"en.*'"°'' Tcsolvcd and concluded that the aforesaid letter and bag shall remain sealed and deposited in the office of their High Mightinesses' Secretary, until the costs and charges which have accrued in the aforesaid case shall have been paid and defrayed.

Resolution of the States General confirming the Judgment in the case of Blommaert et al. against Van Rensselaer. [ From the Kegister of West India Affairs, 1633 -- 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, 14 June, 1650. Folio 569.Received a letter from the Councillors of Holland, Zealand and Friesland, written here at the Hague on the first instant, being, in effect, an answer to their High Mightinesses' letter of the 16"' December, 1649, communicating, pursuant thereunto, a draft of judgment prepared by them in the suit instituted before their High Mightinesses between Samuel BlommertSamucl Blommcrt cum sociis, plaintiffs on the one side, and Wouter van Twiller, cum sociu ^j^^ ^^^^ sociis in the quality in which they act, defendants on the other side "' ai6o"cumsociiZ' WhereupoH, deliberation being had, their High Mightinesses have resolved and Dictum ofjudgment. concluded that the aforesaid draft of judgment shall be pronounced, as it is

inserted here below, and be communicated to parties in the case in this form :

Judgment. In the suits pending before the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands between Samuel Blommaert, Mr. Johannes de Laet, for himself as well as in the name and on the behalf of and as attorney for his sisters and brothers, and Jacomo Wessels for himself as well as attorney for his mother, brothers and sisters, and Toussaint Moussart, plaintiffs on the one side, and Wouter Van Twiller, acting for Jan seiaer's Executors. exccutors of KiHaeu van Renselaer, defendants, on the other side. Yg|(5^ both