And as tlie Directors aforesaid are content that certain Provisional Boundary concluded, yonder, in the year 1G50, be included therein, they accordingly requested your High Mightinesses' Ambassadors then in England, may be instructed to apply to the Lord Protector either that the aforesaid Provisional Boundary may be approved, or the Directors on both sides be authorized to agree on and arrange a new one subject to your High Mightinesses' and his Highness' approval. If a pertinent proposal has been drawn up by the said Ambassadors on this subject, it has been witiiout any result, as far as the said Directors are advised. Since that time, the case has been that, in New Netherland some private Englishmen have not hesitated to usurp the possession of some of the Company's lands. Nevertheless, the chief and principal men of that nation give out and declare to be well satisfied with, and inclined to remain within the limits of the aforesaid Provisional Boundary, in case Director Stuyvesant could obtain your High Mightinesses' approbation thereof, or else a general authorization. Therefore, the aforesaid Directors have deemed it necessary to apply again to your High Mightinesses and humbly to request you to be pleased to cause to be issued and handed to the Company, the aforesaid Acte of approbation, and authorization, that they may use either the one or the other, as circumstances may direct and the public service may demand. Which doing, etc. Delivered in the name and on the behalf of the Directors aforesaid, the 22'"' February, 1656. (Signed) Gysbert Rudolphy.