And first, namely, on the 27"" of January, IGOO, and 10"" and IS"", and principally on the SG"" February of said year, they, the Delegates, at the Hon*"'' Directors at the Chamber at Amsterdam, in presence and before your High Mightinesses' Commissioners, being severely reproached by the Hon'''' Directors who were unwilling to acknowledge their commission or constituents (commiitcntr.n), delivered to your High Miglitinesses' Commissioners for the affairs of New Netherland, copy of their commission and of the commission of their constituents (committcnien), which, notwithstanding said opposition of tlie Directors was, afterwards, on the 1 1"" April, confirmed by order of your High Mightinesses, as is to be seen by the annexed paper No. 1. The Select men, their constituents, were, however, afterwards on a sudden, very unhandsomely dissolved by the Director, contrary to your High Mightinesses' order of the ll"" of April and contrary to their own right and privilege of nomination, after they had, on foreseeing the occurrence from afar, by complaint and letter made known and forewarned your High Mightinesses of what was to happen, according to the Director's expressed words and threats. And as the Petitioner's own affairs in New Netherland are going fast to ruin, and the common Redress is here by divers means kept back, the Petitioner repeatedly besought your High Mightinesses, most humbly, to dismiss him, principally in his petition of the tenth of March, and now lately, he proposing from day to day to depart, by your High Mightinesses' consent, with his wife, mother, sister, brother, servants, maids, and in that design had packed and shipped all his implements and goods. Whereupon the Petitioner proceeded to Amsterdam to arrange his other affairs at that place ; but he understood here, before he left, that the Hon"' Directors of Amsterdam had forbidden all the skippers to- receive him, the Petitioner, or his, even though exhibiting your High Mightinesses' express orders and consent.