Wherefore We order and command all and every person being in our service and under our obedience, whom this may in any wise concern, either in this country, on the passage, or in New Netherland, and especially the abovenamed Stuyvesant and his Council that they shall cause and allow the abovenamed petitioner to enjoy the full effect hereof, and accordingly, not to molest him in his person nor in any wise to be hindering unto him, on pain of incurring our highest indignation. Given at the Hague, under our seaj, paraph and signature of our Secretary, the SO"" June XVI" and fifty.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 409

lution of the States General approving Hie preceding Letter.

[ From the Register of Weet India Affairs, 1638 -- 1G51, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Friday, 1« July,' 1650. Foiio572. The draft of the letters of protection prepared pursuant to their High Comeiis Meiyn. Mlghtiucsses' Order of yesterday, for the behoof of Cornelis Melyn, going to New Netherland, being read in the Assembly, it is, after previous deliberation, considered as enacted, and moreover ordered to be issued.

Resolution of the States General ordering Secretary van TienJioven to be examined.

[ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1533 -- 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ]

Thursday, 2P' July, 1650. Foiio577. After previous deliberation, it is hereby resolved and concluded, to request and authorize Mess" van Aertsbergen and the other, their High Mightinesses' deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, to take the trouble to cause Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven, at present here, to be heard and examined by M"^ Hariiian van Zuylen van Nyevelt, in their presence and that of some of the Directors of said Company, and to answer New Netherland. catcgorically ou Certain points and articles relating to New Netherland, exibited and shown this day to the Assembly; which shall accordingly be placed in the hands of Mess" their High Mightinesses' deputies.