[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And with this view, we have requested Messrs., our deputies, who are to go and preside over your present Assembly, in our behalf, earnestly to recommend and urge this matter on you, so that the Petitioner be deprived of cause of complaint. Done XXX"" April, 1637. Resolution of the States General to commission Willem Kieft, Director of New Netherland. [ From the Register of Eesolutloiis of the States Geoeral, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ] Wednesday, 2" September, 1637. Folio 433. Director Elias de Raet appeared in the Assembly, with credentials from the Directors of the West India [Company] Chamber at Amsterdam, of the first instant, and WiiiiimKiefi. prayed their High Mightinesses that Commission do issue, and the oath be New Netherland. entered of WiLLEM KiEFT, to go in the stead of Wouter Van Twyler, as Director of New Netherland. Which being granted by their High Mightinesses, the aforesaid Commission is ordered to be issued, and the aforesaid Willem Kieft was thereupon sworn. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IL 105 Subject for Consideration by the A-s-semhly of the XIX. 1638. [ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Ilagae; File, TFes* Indi«. 1 Points of Reference on which all the Chambers of the West India Company are summoned to Middelburg for the 25"" January, 1638; extracted so far as relates to the affairs of New Netherland. Received 19 January, 1638. 17"" Point.