HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 487 any plantation of tlie Netherlanders there, save a small number up in Hudson's River, Wee thinke it not necessary at present to settle the limits, which maybe done hereafter in convenient tyme.

These things wee have thought fit to Exhibite to yo' Excellencies, upon those things you propounded in yo' paper of Thirtie six articles. What remaynes further to be offered on our part for consuraating the treaty shall in convenient tyme be aisoe exhibited to y" Excellencies.

Signed in the name and by order of the Councell of State appointed by Authority of Parlament. (sd) P. Lisle president Whitehall. 15 March 165J.

Resolution of the States General.

[ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1663, in the Eoyal Archlyes at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, 13"" August, 1652. Folio 82. Mr. van der Capelle tho Ryssel hath again brought before the Assembly pany. and had read, certain written opinion of the Directors of the West India Company here in attendance, exhibited on the 31 July last, concerning the preservation of the Coasts of English. Brasil, Guinea and New Netherland, and how the English thereabouts can be

annoyed. Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded, that the said written opinion be again placed in the hands of the abovementioned Mr. van der Capelle tho Ryssel and the other their High Mightinesses' preceding deputies, in order to investigate, examine, to submit their views as to the finding of means and ways whereby the affairs of said West India Company in the Countries aforesaid may be restored and preserved in good condition, and to report on the whole to their High Mightinesses.