ao-ainst, nor to the prejudice of it, nor of the appellants, whom we, for reasons, have relieved of the indebita interjection, issue and prosecution of said appeal ; but were anything on the contrary done, attempted or innovated, that he immediately and without delay repair, and put it in its original and most proper place, without failing in any part thereof. And whereas|some of the aforesaid persons may sojourn at present without these United Provinces and the jurisdiction thereof, you shall make service hereof at their last place of abode, and on their factors, attorneys or the agents of their property, if any they have subject to our^authority ;

if not, at the uttermost parts of this country where such writs are admitted, and the nearest to their places of residence, notifying them thereof by letter and authentic copy hereof, to the end that they may not plead ignorance hereof, which service being performed by you, we shall esteem as valid as if it were personal, leaving copy hereof and of your service for the behoof of the respondents, reporting to us at the day aforesaid, what you have done in the premises. Given at the Hague, under our seal, paraph, and signature of our Secretary, on the tenth April, XVI' three and fifty.

Chamber at Amsterdam to the States General.

[ From the Original in the Eoyal ArchiTes at the Hague ; File, West Indie. ]

High and Mighty Lords. Adriaen van der Donck, having heretofore resided in New Netherland, a place situated within the Company's Charter, hath submitted to us a certain little Book, entitled Beschryvinge van Nieu-Nederlant, begrJJpende de Nature, Aerl, gelegentheyt en vruchlbaerheyt van het selve Lant ; mitsgaders de proffijlelljcke ende gewenste toevallen, die aldaer tot s-menschen onderhoul, ''