Received a letter from the Directors of the West India Compnny, Chamber at Dordrecht, dated at that place the 2'' instant, containing an answer to their High Mightinesses' despatch of IG"'" February last and, in conformity thereto, also their iriformalioii and observations Provisional order 0" ^^e Provisional Order respecting New Netherland. Which being considered, onNewNutheriand. jj j^ resolved and concluded that the aforesaid letter and documents shall be placed in the hands of Mess" Verbolth and the other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of New Netherland, to look over, examine and report thereon.

Chamber at MidJelburg to the States General. [From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ; Lokctluis of the States General ; Division, West Indische Oompagnie, No. 80.]

High and Mighty Lords. In obedience to your High Mightinesses' order and despatch of the 16"" February last requesting our suggestions on the part of the Zealand Chamber on the report of Mess" Aertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies on the I'rovisional Order in New Netherland, we cannot express ourselves otherwise thereupon than to thank your High Mightinesses for iFie care you are pleased to take for the government, preservation and peopling of that district in New Netherland, lying within our common patent; we gladly beheld all such good order and resolution introduced and applied thereto as your High Mightinesses really and effectively consider serviceable. Heretofore our Commissioners have submitted their particular suggestions on this matter to your High Mightinesses, to the effect for the most part substantially, that population and agriculture there may be encouraged by the granting of such Freedoms and Exemptions whereby every one, may be encouraged by the opportunity to transport themselves thither with their means, and in order that such persons may find occasion thereto in all the Provinces, let these concessions be drawn up on an impartial basis and granted by all the Chambers to such as may happen to present themselves, which we readily conclude and hope shall be so determined by your High Mightinesses, for we, being alike incorporated and interested, are of opinion under correction that such district of country lying within the limits of our Charter, ought not to be left exclusively to the Chamber of Amsterdam. 'Tis true, that Chamber hath heretofore repeatedly offered to admit us and other Chambers, but always with the Clause and Condition, that they should be reimbursed the expenses incurred since some years, well knowing that we stood in such position as to make it impossible for us to accept that; and therefore have they, to this date, monopolized that government, to the great prejudice of their High Mightinesses' design, the sole object whereof is the promotion of the population, as can be inferred from all the proceedings.