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.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter.

[ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1C63, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, the 22"'' February, IfiSG. Read at the Meeting a certain Remonstrance of the Directors of the Folio 300.

Incorporated West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam. Which being considered, it is Baiifioation of the resolved and concluded to issue a suitable Acte of Ratification of certain Articles Boundary iu New Netherland. of agreement made and concluded at Herford, in Cannitticot, on the 19"" September, 1650, between the arbitrators of the Commissioners of the United English Colonies and Petrus Stuyvesant, Director-General of the Netherlands Colonies, respecting a Provisional Boundary there. The abovenamed Directors have to take care that a similar Acte of Ratification of the aforesaid Articles be also issued by the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VIII. 611

Ratification of the Treaty of Hartford hy the States General.

[ From the Acte-Boek of the States General, io the Royal ArchiTe8 at the Hague. ]