Thus handed in and delivered on the 30"" July, 1G52, pursuant to the Command of the Honorable Mighty Lords Deputies. (Signed) JoHAN le Thor. ISAACK VAN BeECK. N. Ten Hove.

Secret Resohdion of the States General on the preceding Memoir. [ From the Regl>lcr of the Secret Eesolutlons of the Slates Genernl, In the Royal Archives at the Hague.]

Wednesday, 31 July, 1G52. Folio 35. Heard the report of .Mess" Huygens and the other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, pursuant to the resolution of the 22''

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 485 West India Com- instant, the attending Directors of the West India Company being, also, conferring omn'™. on the preservation of the coasts of Brasil, Guinea, and New Netherland, and how to annoy the English thereabouts; and a certain opinion of the Directors to that effect, was submitted in writing to the Assembly. Whicii being considered, the Provinces have requested copy tliereof, and such is liereby granted.

Petition of Adriaen van tier Donch to the State-<} General.

[From a MS. In Ihe Royal Archivea at the Hague ; Lohttkat of the States General j Division, West Indie, No. 36. ]

To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands.

Adriaen van der Donck, Delegate of the Commonalty of New Netherland, humbly showeth, that he, the Petitioner, was, to his great damage and regret, when on the point of departing to New Netherland, on the IG"" May, 1G52, detained by the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber, as he, the Petitioner, on the S-S"" May following, submitted at length to your High Mightinesses, with the knowledge of the Directors ; wiiich remonstrance was communicated to all the Provinces, and copy of it sent to the respective Chambers for information thereon, as well as to the Chamber of Amsterdam, which seems to claim the affairs of New Netherland as its