Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 232 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] On representation made to the Assembly by Mess" van Aertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, it is, after Pieter stuyvpsanL previous deliberation, resolved and concluded that Pieter Stuyvesant Director and the other Councillors in New iVetherland, shall be written to that their High Mightinesses are engaged in deliberation with the Directors of the West India Company on subjects appertaining Affairs or New *° '■'^^ population and prosperity of New Netherland aforesaid, and meanwhile Neiheriand. j^^^^ licensed somc persons delegated hither from the Commonalty there, to return home, requiring him, Stuyvesant, and the other Councillors there not to trouble nor molest such persons, who came from New Netherland and will again return thither, for representations which may have been made here.