Wherefore We do request and order those of the aforementioned General Incorporated West India Company to instruct and command the Governors or Commanders and Council, who now are, or shall hereafter be in New Netherland, and moreover all others whom it in anywise may concern, conjointly and each in particular, as it shall behoove him, that they maintain and perfect the testament, order and last will of the abovenamed Petitioner, as he shall have made, or yet shall make it, and as it now by Us is ratified and confirmed as aforesaid and whomsoever ;

he, by his testament and last will hath given and granted the aforesaid Fief, or shall have made and assigned, or yet may make, give or assign any rents, or usufructs to, the same to cause and permit the quiet and peaceable use and enjoyment thereof, without causing or allowing him at any time to experience any let, hindrance or molestation therein to the contrary. Given under Our seal, paraph, and the signature of our Greffier in the Hague, the six and twentieth day of April, XVP and fifty and two.

Uesolution of the States General^ recalling Director Stuyvesant.

[ Prom the Register of West India Affairs, 1652 --1663, in the Koyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Saturday, 27"' April, 1652. Folio 19. Upon consideration, it is resolved and concluded to write to Petrus Stuyvesant, Director Stnyresant. Kecaii. '

Director General in New Netherland, to ,,i .,-i repair hither on receipt of the despatch, -cii in order to give their High Mightinesses circumstantial and pertinent information of the true and actual condition of the Country; also, of the boundary line between the English and Dutch there; extract of this, their High Mightinesses' resolution, shall be sent to the presiding Chamber of the West India Company at Amsterdam, for its information.