[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Van Reinswoude hath by express orders from the States of Utrecht dated Ke™tive°'™sendiD l^"" April last, represented to their High Mightinesses that the Count of Solma eTvaMlis' fo^Ne^t' 's Well disposed to send to New Netherland some of his vassals, who have been a cotony there.'""" driveu out of the county of Solms by the war, for the purpose of planting colonies there, relating besides the offers his Lordship had made to the West India Company and the result; that the aforesaid company had refused him wiiat it had already granted to divers private individuals, as well traders as others. Whereupon, after deliberation, it is resolved and concluded that their High Mightinesses' Deputies, who are to attend the present Assembly of the XIX, shall there propose and urge free access to New Netherland for the said Count of Solms and other inhabitants of these countries, and for that purpose, that they bring over the Conditions which they were heretofore ordered to enact, that they be approved and ratified by their High Mightinesses, or in default thereof, their High Mightinesses will themselves give appropriate orders thereupon. Hesolution of the States General on a New Draft of Freedoms and Exemptions. [ From the Register of West India affairs, 1633—1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ] Thursday, the 19 July, 1640. Folio 44.