Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 236 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] van Aertsbergen and the other your High Mightinesses' Committee on West India affairs having been for some months past 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 Committee from New Netherland and the Director there, from and on behalf of, the people, in divers written and verbal remon-strances and Memorials, have at the request of the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber consented to pass over divers matters contained in the Great Remonstrance of the People, and to apply themselves to the principal points, on the expressed 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