Having heard the report of their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, who pursuant to the resolution of the 6"" December, 1652, further New Neiheriand. inspected and examined the letter of fiscal Dyck, written at the Manathans on the 18'* September last, containing various complaints, and amongst others, against Director Biredor. Stuyvesant, It is, upon deliberation resolved and concluded that copies of the

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VII. 527 aforesaid letter and appendices shall be sent to the presiding Chamber of the West India Company, in order that pertinent information may be furnished their High Mightinesses on the contents thereof.

Resolution of the States General on a Petition, of the Proprietors of Rensselaerswyck.

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

Thursday, 20"- February, 1653. Folio 51. The petition of Johan van Renselaer, Patroon, Mr. Johan de Laet and the widow Colonista in New i i • / ^i i ^ l-i , r»i t Netheriand. and heirs of the late bamuel Blommaert, co-directors of the Colonic called Renselaerswyck. in New Netherland, against the Directors of the West India Company at the Chamber at Amsterdam, being read in the Assembly, it is after deliberation resolved and concluded, that the aforesaid petition shall be placed in the hands of the Mess" Huygens other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, in order to inspect, examine and report on them, to the end that the same being heard aitd considered, such disposition be made thereon as shall be found proper.