Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 106 (part 3)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 149 the Company, with authority; that in the meanwhile this Assembly, on its part, shall represent to the Amsterdam Chamber, what persons, in addition to the Director, ought to be recalled; and that Lubbertus van Dincklagen, may be provisionally sent thither in the said Director's place, with such order and instruction as they shall judge to be provisionally for the best advantage of affairs there. Whereupon question being put, the Deputies from Amsterdam declared, relative to the examination of the matter, and the same to serve for advice, that they would agree to the proposition, but could not vote to the prejudice of their Chamber; and regarding the person, Dincklagen, they will endeavor to make him acceptable to their Chamber. Then the members confirmed the proposition, and consent that Dincklagen shall be furnished with provisional commission as Director. Rejyort of the Board of Accounts on Neio Netlierland. 1644. [ From a MS. in the Royal Archires at the Hague; in the Loketkas of the States General; Rubric, West Indische Oompagnie, No 80. 1st Dlrislon.] Report and Advice on the Condition of New Netherland, drawn up from documents and papers placed by commission of the Assembly of the XIX., dated IS"" Dec' 164:4, in the hands of the General Board of Accounts, to examine the same, to make a digest thereof, and to advise the Assembly how the decay there can be prevented, population increased, agriculture advanced, and that country wholly improved for the Company's benefit.