You will please to see from the accompanying petition presented to ^ us in the name and on the behalf of Johannes de Laet,i residing here at the Hague, what he hath represented to us respecting the matter which he hath unsettled Ktiy^an. with and against Tousain Muysart, in regard to the Colonie Renselaerswyck in New Netherland, which petition we have resolved hereby to refer to your Honors, with friendly request that you would take the trouble to consider and examine it together with the documents to be delivered by parties on both sides, and to prepare a judgment thereupon to be sent afterwards to us, which shall then be pronounced without any alteration, Wherewith ending, etc. Done, 26^^ June, 1653.

Resolution of the States General on Appeals from Ke^x Netherland.

[From the EegUier of West India Affairs, 1552-- 16o», in the EotsI ArchiTea at the Hagae.]

Wednesday, the S** August, 1653. **" '^*- The Deputies from the Province of Holland have brought in to the Assembly Afpai feoa jndf- its provincial opinion in manner and form as is hereafter inserted, word for word, Ss^sethoiaAd. to the effect that no Writs of Appeal from Judgments pronounced in New Netherland ought to be granted by their High Mightinesses even with the clause of inhibition;

' JrssiSWB DE T.»Fr v»s bom at Antwerp abont the eloee of the XYIth Centory. He -was a prominent Director of the West India Company, and dislingnished himself in the -trorid of letters by his knowledge of the langnages, history and geography. He is elsewhere represente-i as ha-sing died towards the end of 1649 or in the be-dnning of le-SO. See tupra, p. 407 also the Bio^aphU VnxtxrtdU, where a list of his worts is given. Of these following only have relation to this Country: L The yew Worid, or a description of the West Indies, which was published in Dntch in 1625 and 1630 ; in Latin in 1633 and in French in 1640, all in folio.