[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] May it please your Honor to know, in regard to the application of the Directors of the West India Company for a commission for the Director of New Netherland, the retro acta have been lying, for the last 10 or 12 days, in the office of Your High Mightinesses' Secretary, pursuant to your High Mightinesses' order. We pray your High Mightinesses to cause the patent to be dispatched, inasmuch as 2 ships are waiting at the Texel only for that, in order to set sail. Which doing, &c. (Endorsed) Memorial on behalf of the West India Company, 26"" of July, 1646. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IIL 177 Resolution of the States General on the preceding Memorial. [ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1638—1651, in the Royal Archives at the Hague.] Thursday, 26"' July, 1646. Folio 208. ^ certain memorial, presented to their High Mightinesses by and on behalf of Director going to,.^. ^ t /-, n a o j New Netheriaud. the West India Company for a patent of Commission for the Director going to New Netherland, being read to the Assembly; it is, after previous deliberation, resolved and concluded, before proceeding thereupon, that the above named West India Company shall exhibit to their High Mightinesses an authentic copy of the Instruction for the above mentioned Director, according to which he will have to regulate himself. Resolution of the States General approving the Commission of Director Stuyvesant. [ From the Register of West India affairs, 1638—1651, in the Royal Archires at the Hague.