[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Chamber at Amsterdam to the States General. [ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Uague; File, Wait Indie. ] High and Mighty Lords. We have been unexpectedly informed by our brother, Mr. Abraham Wilmerdonx, that your High Mightinesses have been pleased to send to the Assembly of the Deputies from the respective Chambers in the City of Amsterdam the petition and appendices presented to your High Mightinesses by this Chamber for the approval and ratification of some Colonies to be planted in New Netherland by the Worshipful Burgomasters of Amsterdam, which are immediately and extremely necessary for the augmentation of the population and the maintenance and security of those countries, in order that said Assembly may communicate to your High Mightinesses, without delay, its information and advice; notwithstanding that place hath been many years under the particular disposition of the Amsterdam Chamber, and by numerous resolutions of the Assembly of the XIX., is left to that Chamber; so that your High Mightinesses made not the least objection in the year 1651, to grant similar approbation and ratification to Mr.