Document: Extract from the register of resolutions of the directors of the W. I. Company

Copy B.

Extract from the register of resolutions of the hon. lords directors of the W. I. Company, chamber of Amsterdam.

[ The complaints of the patroons of the ] colony on the [ South River ] of New Netherland having been read, it is agreed to place them into the hands of the commissioners of New Netherland; before it is done, the question is proposed, whether the conditions granted to the coloniers should be considered as having been lawfully obtained, which is answered in the affirmative; then it is proposed that their honors, the lords commissioners of New Netherland, should examine the affairs of the patroons and the colonies and how far their jurisdiction reaches.

Agrees with the aforesaid register and was signed Jacob Hamel.

(below was written) After collation with the original I testify that I have found this to be in agreement. Dated 13th of April 1634 in Amsterdam. J GFF van der Ven, notary public.

After collation with the extracted copy, dated and signed and authenticated as above, this copy was found to agree with it. At Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 21st of June 1656. Attested by me, (was signed)

D. V. Schelluyne, notary public.