and Select men shall not practice evasion or delay respecting the incurred expenses and vacation during this delegation, which the Petitioner is obliged to demand as he has certain information that the Director intends anew, through him, by lack of pecuniary support, to crush the good and needful work for the Commonalty in New Netherland. Which doing. ( Endorsed Memorial of Adriaen van der Donck, delegate from the Commonalty in New Netherland 13 May, 1652.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Memorial.

[ From the Eeeinter of West India Affairs, 1C62 -- 1663, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Monday, 13 May, 1652. Fuiio 20. Read in the Assembly the petition of Adr van der Donck, Delegate from the :

Adr van der Donck. : Commonalty of Ncw Netherland addressed to Mr. van Aersbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies, praying, substantially, that as the ships lie ready to sail in Te.xel and he, tlie Petitioner hath embarked therein all his goods and also divers people, he may be granted an open dismissal with the clause dc non offcndcndo, and that the Director and those whom it may further concern, be ordered to allow the Petitioner peaceably to hold the office of President of the Commonalty of New Amsterdam, which the Petitioner was filling when he took his departure; the Petitioner not being able, otherwise, to leave without directly contravening their High Mightinesses' resolution of the li"" of March ; further offering, should their High Mightinesses think proper, to appear again in person here at the Hague next winter. Secondly, the Petitioner most humbly prays also, to this end, that their High Mightinesses may write to the Commonalty in New Netherland that the settlement of the boundary, the population and reduction of duties shall be taken into early consideration by their High Mightinesses, wherefore they liave resolved to recommend his, the Petitioner's return here that, also, the ;