Director, Council and Select men shall not practice evasion or delay respecting the incurred expenses and fees 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 being considered, the Lords of Elolland have taken the matter aforesaid into their bauds to be more fully communicated to their constituents.

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Secret Resolutions of the Slates General on the Negotiation with England.

[From Ihe Register or Secret Eesolutions of the States General, In the Royal Archives at the Hague.]

Monday, 13 May, 1652. Folio 59. The written considerations on the answers returned by the Council of State in England High Mightinesses' Extraordinary Ambassador at present to their Considerations on there, OH the Thirty-six Articles in question, '' ^ which were to serve as a basis of a the 36 Articles. Treaty to be concluded between the Republic of England aforesaid and this State, being again brought up in the Assembly; it is, after deliberation, resolved and concluded, hereby to draw up the aforesaid considerations in manner and form as is hereinafter inserted, word for word. Mess" the Ambassadors shall be careful, &c. Folio 60. They shall make use of all imaginable reasons and arguments to the end that the contents of the eleventh Article may be obtained. At the same time the settlement of the Boundary mentioned in the twelfth Article shall be postponed until a more favorable opportunity.