s Province
interested in commerce, to support their request presented to the
States-General the 20th current, to the end that efficacious
measures might be taken to establish a commerce between this
country and North America, copies of which petitions have been
given to the members the 21st; and it has been thought fit, and
resolved, that the affairs shall be directed, on the part of
their Noble and Grand Mightinesses, at the Assembly of the
States-General, and there shall be there made the strongest
instances that Mr. Adams be admitted and acknowledged, as soon as
possible, by their High Mightinesses in quality of Envoy of the
United States of America. And the Counsellor-Pensionary has been
charged to inform, under his hand, the said Mr. Adams of this
Resolution of their Noble and Grand Mightinesses."

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ZEALAND.

_Extract of the Resolutions of their High Mightinesses, the
States-General of the United Provinces._

Monday, April 8th, 1782.

"The Deputies of the Province of Zealand have brought to the
Assembly and caused to be read there the Resolution of the States
of the said Province, their principals, to cause to be admitted
as soon as possible, Mr. Adams, in quality of Envoy of the
Congress of North America in the following terms:

_Extract from the Register of the Resolutions of the Lords, the (p. 060)
States of Zealand._

April 4th, 1782.

"It has been thought fit and ordered, that the gentlemen, the
Ordinary Deputies of this Province at the generality, shall be
convoked and authorized, as it is done by the present, to assist
in the direction of affairs at the Assembly of their High
Mightinesses, in such a manner that Mr. Adams may be acknowledged
as soon as possible as Envoy of the Congress of North America;
that the letters of credence be accepted, and that he be admitted
in that quality according to the ordinary form, enjoining further
upon the said Lords, the Ordinary Deputies, to take such
propositions as should be made to this Republic, by the said Mr.
Adams, for the information and the deliberation of their High
Mightinesses, to the end to transmit them here as soon as
possible. And an extract of this resolution of their Noble