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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 71

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Folio 878. Read the remonstrance of the attending Deputies of the Assembly of the XIX. WMt India Com-^j. ^^^ West India Company, lately hoiden at Amsterdam, requesting, for the reasons therein set forth, that their High Mightinesses would be pleased so to influence the respective provinces, that the West India Company may finally obtain the desired votes of Subsidy. subsidy for this current year. 1634, as prayed for by the general petition of the Council of State, for the behoof of the aforesaid Company, so that the latter may, with renewed courage, prosecute, and with God's blessing, successfully complete its begun work, to the advantage of this state, and the humiliation of the general enemy. Secondly, the above named remonstrants are also instructed to explain to their High Difficulty with the Mightinesses certain difficulties which manifest themselves in New Netherland English in New ° Netherland. with the English.