[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We have duly received your High Mightinesses' despatch, dated the 16"" of February, together with the Provisional Order respecting New Netherland thereunto annexed, whereupon, according to your High Mightinesses' instructions and command, we have drawn up our opinion in manner, as your High Mightinesses shall see noted in the margin; respectfully and humbly requesting your High Mightinesses to be pleased to persevere in matters so good and wholesome for the State, and especially to order that the committee proceeding further therein, may receive despatch by the Chambers whom it most concerns. Wherewith ending, We remain. High and Mighty Lords, Your High Mightinesses humble servants. The Directors of the West India Company at Dordrecht. Dordrecht, 2 March, 1652. (Signed) D. Hoeufft, Received 5 March, 1652. Gerhardt Noey Observations of the Chamber at Dordrecht on the Provisional Order respecting Nexo Netherland. [ From the MS. in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague; LockeUcaa of the States General; Division, West Itulische Compagnie, No. 36. ] Whereas it is stated in the text thereof that their High Mightinesses did not grant the exclusive benefit of New Netherland to the Directors of the Chamber at Amsterdam, but to all the Partners of the West India Company dispersed throughout the Provinces, and that it cannot 464 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.