Folio 45 Received a letter from the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, written there the 31" December last, in answer to their High Mightinesses' letter of the 2S"' of said month, with intelligence that it was impossible for them to furnish their Cnionists ia New High Migh tinesscs, within the space of 2 days, the requisite information on the petition of the Patroon and co-directors of the Colonie Renselaerswyck, requesting, therefore, that proper time be afforded them to give an answer upon all points according to demand and circumstances. Whereupon no action was taken.

Chamber at Amsterdam to the States General. [ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ; file West Indie. ]

High and Mighty Lords. After we received on the 30"' December last your High Mightinesses' letter of the 2S"'' of the same month, and briefly and provisionally submitted on the following day to your High Mightinesses that it would be impossible for us to give an answer within the space of two days

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VIL 521 High and Mighty, by Johan van Renselaer, patroon, Mr. Johan to the petition presented to you, de Laet and the widow and heirs of Samuel Biommaert, co-directors of the coionie, named Renselaers-wyck, we daily occupied ourselves in the examination of the aforesaid petition and in comparing with it what the Director General of New Netherland has addressed to us by

letters, and also what was received by reports and informations of other qualified and reliable persons. So large a quantity of these papers had to be examined that we have not been prepared, before now, to send your High Mightinesses the requisite information; herein we have avoided taking notice of anything except solely what was required by the aforesaid information and some circumstances connected with said points reserving the further deduction ;