We send you herewith the accompanying extract of our West India compa- Resolutions adopted on the letter from the Directors of the West India Company, Boundary of New Chamber at Amsterdam, dated the 29"" instant, with request that you regulate Netherland. a, yourself accordingly. Wherewith ending, etc. Done 31 May, 1655.

576 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Resolution of the States General on a Letter from the Spanish Amhassador.

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

Saturday, 10"" July, 1655. Folio 1-3. Read at the Assembly, a certaia Memorial from the Spanish Ambassador, sponish Ambasaa- requesting that the Magistrate of the city of Amsterdam be written to, to apprehend SL-bastiaa Eaef. and seize the goods of Sebastian Raef, a Captain or privateer committing piracies in the West Indies on the subjects of the Most Illustrious King, and who is at present sojourning at Amsterdam, aforesaid; also, that the Government of New Netherland be instructed to arrest in their harbors Joan van Kampen, his lieutenant, together with his ship and effects, that law and justice be administered to the one and the other, for the behoof of the interested, with infliction of exemplary punishment for the piracies they have committed. Which being considered, it is hereby resolved and concluded to request the Lords of Holland to recommend to the said Magistrate to administer good, brief and prompt justice in the premises aforesaid; also, to afford the interested full justice.

Resolution of ilie States General on a Letter from the Chamber at Amsterdam.