[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] After previous deliberation, it is hereby resolved and concluded, to request and authorize Mess" van Aertsbergen and the other, their High Mightinesses' deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, to take the trouble to cause Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven, at present here, to be heard and examined by M"^ Hariiian van Zuylen van Nyevelt, in their presence and that of some of the Directors of said Company, and to answer New Netherland. catcgorically ou Certain points and articles relating to New Netherland, exibited and shown this day to the Assembly; which shall accordingly be placed in the hands of Mess" their High Mightinesses' deputies. And their High Mightinesses shall report at their convenience, on said subject. Then the deputies, on behalf of the Province of Friesland, gave notice hereupon, that they are not concerned in this matter. Interrogatories to he proposed to Secretary van Tienhoven. [ From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague; Loketkas of the States General; Division, West Indische Conipa^jnU^ No. 25. ] Points and articles to which the High and Mighty Lords States General, or their deputies should instruct, and consequently order and command Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven to render categorical answers. Exhibited 21 July, 1650. 1. Can he, Cornelis van Tienhoven, understand and speak the Indian language? 2. Was he not usually employed in Director Kieft's time, as the medium through whom comuiunicationa were made to the Indians r Vol.. I.