Mcss" Bevemingk and Nieupoort, extraordinary Ambassadors from this State to England, written to him from Westminster, the 27"= of last month, with an appendix containing ample information of what they have done in the matter of the Boundary in New Netherland, between the subjects of this State and those of England. Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded, that it be sent to the States General, in order that their High Mightinesses may transmit copy of said Despatch and Appendix to the Presidial Chamber of the West India Company here, with request to be furnished at the earliest date with its conclusions and opinion thereupon and to receive pertinent information on all the points more fully detailed in said letter.

Ambassadors Beveriiingh and Nieupoort to Secretary Buysch. [ From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague ; File, Eagdand No. 18. Verbad van Beverningk, p. 693. ] ;

Sir.

In answer and reply to their High Mightinesses' letter and Resolution of the 29"" September, respecting the Boundary between the English and those of this State in New Netherland, they will be hereby respectfully informed, that among the documents relating to this matter we have found no other Instruction than the Memoir numbered 1,^ touching the Limits and Jurisdiction claimed there; a Description of the Limits there. No. 2,' and two Extracts, of letters writtenby Director Stuyvesandt, the first of the 29"' November, 16-50,* and the other

' The source from which the above dispatch is derived, is not stated. It is printed in the Verbael van Bevemingk, p. 611.