Read in the Assembly,. the petition, presented to their High Mightinesses, of Folio 19.

Martin Beekman as Attorney of Cornelis Melyn, Patroon on Statea Island in New Netherland D^recior''Vln'M- containing a continuation of the complaints against Director Petrus Stuyvesant; ""' which being considered, it is resolved and concluded that said petition shall be referred to the Mess" Aersbergen and the other their High Mightinesses' deputies for the aflairs of the West India Company, to examine and inspect the same and to report thereon.

Memorial of Adriaen van der Donck.

I From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague; Loketkai of the States General; Division, Wesi Indudie (bmpagnU, No. 36.]

Memorial for the Lord van Seraertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of New Netherland.

As the ships lie ready to sail in Texel and the Petitioner hath embarked all his goods and also divers people therein, he most humbly requests an open dismissal with the clause de non offendendo, and that the Director and whosoever it might further concern, may allow the Petitioner again to hold peaceably the office of President of the Commonalty in New Amsterdam, which the Petitioner was filling at the date of his departure, as he is not able, otherwise, to leave without direct contravention of your High Mightinesses' resolution of the 14"' of March of this year, and he offers, should your High Mightinesses think proper, to appear again in person at the Hague next winter. Vol. I. 60

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