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466 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. common, we are prepared, as we have always been, and even as it was determined in the last Assembly of the Nineteen held at Amsterdam, that men should liquidate and equalize among each other, wherein we shall gladly admit whatever claims of the Chamber of Amsterdam will be found just, expecting for this and other reasons that we shall be admitted by your High Mightinesses to the right which according to the Charter appertains to us. In regard to the other additional particulars regarding the reform of the government, etc., we shall willingly agree to whatever will be found most reasonable and most expedient, wherewith ending, we shall pray God to be pleased to bless your High Mightinesses' Government and We are Your High Mightinesses' Humble and faithful servants. The Directors of the West India Company, in Zealand. Middelburg, first of March, 1G52. (Signed) D. Bante. Received S"" March, 1652. Joh. Pelletier.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter.

[From the Register of West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1663, in the Eoyal Archiyes st the Hague.]

Friday, 8'" March, 1652. FoUoB. Received a letter from the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber of Zealand, written at Middelburgh 1" inst., containing the answer to their High Mightinesses' ProTi.ionai Order despatch of the IG"" February last, relative to the Provisional Order of government eramcot"^ iH'^ Few in New Netherlaod. Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded that the aforesaid despatch shall be placed in the hands of Mess" Capelle tho Ryssel and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies, to look over, examine, and to determine what has already been done and to report thereon.