And as the aforesaid matter demands dispatch and cannot be postponed without great prejudice and injury to the Company, we have humbly to request your therefore resolved High Mightinesses hereby, to be pleased, pursuant to the order hereinbefore made, and for reasons above set forth, again seriously to recommend the forwarding of the matter aforesaid to the abovementioned Ambassador, so that the aforesaid Boundary may be determined without any longer delay; or in case what is above stated cannot be effected, then that the matter may be so ordered, that the Governors or Servants on both sides in those parts may be commissioned and authorized thereunto. Wherewith ending, we pray God Almighty that He would be pleased to bless your High Mightinesses' persons and government ; and remain High and Mighty Lords, Your High Mightinesses' humble servants The Directors of the West India Company Chamber at Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 20"' May, ] (Signed) David van Baerle. '

Received 24"" May, j Jacob Pergens, M^

574 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter.

[From the Register of West India Affairs, 1652-- 1663, in the Royal Archives at the Hague]

Monday, 24'" May, 1655. Received a letter from the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Folio 165.

Amsterdam, dated the 20"" instant, stating in substance that they have been for some months their High Mightinesses' Extraordinary Boundary of New '" daily expectation that Mr. Nieupoort, Netheriand. Ambassador to the Protector in England might have effected something there in the matter of the Boundary in New Netlierland between those of this State and England, but tliat they had not yet heard anything concerning it. Which being considered, and it being observed that the aforesaid matter demands dispatch and cannot be delayed without great prejudice and injury to the aforesaid West India Company, it is resolved and concluded, that the said Ambassador Nieupoort shall be again written to, that he still duly perform all good and effectual duties and offices, pursuant to their High Mightinesses' previous orders, to the end that the aforesaid Boundary may be determined there without further delay, or in case the abovementioned should not be effected, that then the matter may be so directed that the Governors or Servants in New Netherland aforesaid may be commissioned and authorized thereunto on both sides.