[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] jj j^ resolved and concluded that the aforesaid letter and documents shall be placed in the hands of Mess" Verbolth and the other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of New Netherland, to look over, examine and report thereon. Chamber at MidJelburg to the States General. [From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague; Lokctluis of the States General; Division, West Indische Oompagnie, No. 80.] High and Mighty Lords. In obedience to your High Mightinesses' order and despatch of the 16"" February last requesting our suggestions on the part of the Zealand Chamber on the report of Mess" Aertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies on the I'rovisional Order in New Netherland, we cannot express ourselves otherwise thereupon than to thank your High Mightinesses for iFie care you are pleased to take for the government, preservation and peopling of that district in New Netherland, lying within our common patent; we gladly beheld all such good order and resolution introduced and applied thereto as your High Mightinesses really and effectively consider serviceable.