HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VI. 467 conjointly delivered in our opinions and further communicated our thoughts and considerations to the Lords, your High Mightinesses' Committee in two separate memorials on the 30"" March and 28"" May of the said year 1650, by Deputies of the Chambers of Zealand, Maase and North quarters, whereunto having nothing further to add at present, we shall again refer thereto and should your High Mightinesses conclude to resume and further inquire into ;

these matters, when the deputies from all the Chambers appear again at the Hague, which will apparently he soon, we shall direct and instruct those of our Chamber of the Maase to arrange all things for the public advantage on the resolution of Your High Mightinesses, in order that so magnificent a country may not go to ruin by bad government and management. Remaining herewith, High and Mighty Lords, Your High Mightinesses' most humble Servants, The Directors of the West India Company, Maase Chamber at Delft. (Signed) Joost van Lodensteyn, 1652. Delft, 8"" March, 1652. N. ten Hove.. Received 13 March.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter.

[ From the Register of 'West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1663, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Wednesday, 13 March, 1652. Folio II. Received a letter from the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber of Provisional Order ^-'i^ Maase at Delft, dated the 8"" inst., in answer to their High Mightinesses' emment"^of°New despatch of the February last relative to the Provisional Order respecting the Government, preservation and population of New Netherland. Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded that the aforesaid letter shall be placed in the hands of Mess" Huygens and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of the West India Company to look over, examine and to report thereon.