his equals and partners in the aforesaid Colonie, except simply the title of Patroon, provided always, that the management of the aforesaid Colonie shall consist, according to the aforesaid agreement, of four persons or votes, to wit, the defendants presenting two votes, and the aforesaid Blommaert or Moussart one vote, and the heirs of Johannes de Laet, deceased, or the widow and heirs of Adam Wessels, the fourth vote ; and to pay the costs of this suit, for reasons their High Mightinesses thereunto moving. Thus resolved and pronounced, in the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords States General, on the li"" June, XVP and fifty.

(On one side was written) I, the undersigned, have removed from the office of their High Mightinesses' Secretary, the bag of papers between Samuel Blommert and Johannes de Laet, cum sociis, plaintiffs against Jan van Wely and Wouter van Twiller, as Guardians of the children of Kiliaen van Renselaer* defendants. Done the l?"" June, 1650. C. SCHENCK.

I, the undersigned, have removed from the office of their High Mightinesses' Secretary, the bag of papers of the Guardians of the minor son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, defendants against Samuel Blommert cum sociis, plaintiffs. Done the 7"" October, 1650. Henrice Bernantz.

Resolution of the States General granting Letters of Protection to Cornells Melyn.

[ From the Eegiater of West India Affairs, 163S -- 1651, in Ihe Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Thursday, 30"= June 1650. Folio 573. Read in the Assembly the petition presented to their High Mightinesses in the oomeus Melyn. Dame, and on the behalf of Cornells Melyn, colonist on Staten Island in New