[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 188 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. affording them every comfort. In two days they reached here. A thanksgiving was proclaimed on their arrival. [ The remainder is wuniing.'j Resolution of the States General. [From the Register of Weat India Affairs, 1G33— 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hagoe.] Tuesday, T^ January 1648. Folio 804. Received a leter from Peter Stuyvesant written in New Amsterdam in New p. stuyvesaui. Netherland the 6"" October 1647, and with it some enclosures respecting the condition and state of affairs there. Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded hereby to request the Mess" van der Capellen tho Ryssel and the other their High Mightinesses' Deputies in the matter of the reform of the direction and management of the affairs relating to the West India Company, with what appertains to, and depends on, them, to inspect and examine the same and report thereupon. Resolution of the States General on a Petition from New Netherland. [Frcm the Register of Weal India Affairs, 1638—1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ] Saturday, 11"" January 1648. Folio 806.