[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] van Aertzbergen and the other your High Mightinesses' Committee on West India affairs, having been for some months in conference with the Directors delegated by the Chamber at Amsterdam and others of the West India Company, on matters brought before your High Mightinesses, both by the Delegates from New Netherland and tlie Directors there, from and on behalf of the People, in divers written and verbal remonstrances and memorials, have, at the request of the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber, consented to pass over divers matters contained in the Great Reeonstrance of the People, and to apply themselves to the principal points, on the express assurance from the aforesaid Directors that they would receive all just and respectful representations. And to this end, having inquired into the system of government hitherto maintained in New Netherland, the heavy burtlieiis which the Company hath in con.sequence borne, and the small profii.