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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 88 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Which being taken into deliberation, their High Mightinesses have resolved and concluded to hereby declare that the aforesaid Articles, drawn up by the Amsterdam Chamber, are, in their present form, not adapted to the service and promotion of the Colonies of New Netherland; and their High Mightinesses, therefore, resolved that the said drafted Articles and Conditions be again returned to Sieur Johan de Laet, Director of the West India Company, to which is to be adjoined the aforesaid New Project, to be communicated to the Chamber of the West India Company at Amsterdam, and to tell it, on the part of their High Mightinesses, to send some deputies hither by Monday next, the vi"" instant, in order that the entire case of New Netherland may be further viewed and examined with their High Mightinesses' former deputies; their joint considerations on the aforesaid subject then to be laid before their High Mightinesses' Assembly, to the end that such resolutions on the planting of Colonies and stocking Cattle in New Netherland, may be adopted as shall be found to be most for the service of this State and the advantage of the Company. Subject for the Consideration of the Assembly of the XIX., 1638. [ From the Original In the Royal Archives at the Hague. File Witt Indie. ] Points of Reference, whereon all the Chamber of the West India Company are summoned to Middleburg for the S?"" September, 1638; extracted so far as relate to the affairs of New Netherland.