the Directors, may be converted into a resolu- further resolved to send a copy of it to the

tion. respective Chambers of the West India Company, with order to communicate their considerations thereon, at the earliest moment.

The delegate requests that he may be When final disposition shall be made of the discharged, in order to his return to New 5"" article, due regard shall be taken for the

Netherland with the aforesaid provisional petitioner's discharge.

order of government.

Extracts of Letters, Journals, Resolutions, &c., from New Netherland. [ From Ihe Notarial copy in the Royal Archires at the Hague ; Loketkat of the States General ; Division, West IndUche Compagnie, Ho. 86. ]

Extracts and Copies of Letters, Memoirs, Journals and Resolutions sent by the Select men of New Netherland in the years 1650 and 1651, to Adriaen van der Donck, corroborating the petition; (furnished) pursuant to their High Mightinesses' Order dated le"" P'ebruary, 1652.

Extract of a letter of the Select men dated 17"" Agust 1650 to Adriaen van der Donck.

You will learn from our letter to the Noble Mighty Lords their High Mightinesses' deputies on the affairs of New Netherland, the time of our arrival here and in what condition we found the Board and the Commonalty. The people are greatly imposed on ; men will fain hang and burn the Select men, and moreover, whilst duly observing our honor and oath, &c. The affliction in which the poor Commonalty here live, cannot be any longer endured ; they are more and more oppressed.