April, 1782.

"The Lords, the States of Groningen and Ommelanden, having heard
the report of the gentlemen, the Commissioners for the Petitions
of the Council of State and the Finances of the Province, and
having carefully examined the demand of Mr. Adams, to present his
letters of credence from the United States of North America, to
their High Mightinesses, have, after deliberation upon the
subject, declared themselves of opinion that in the critical
circumstances in which the Republic finds itself at present, it
is proper to take, without loss of time, such efficacious
measures as may not only repair the losses and damages that the
kingdom of Great Britain has caused, in a manner so unjust, and
against every shadow of right, to the commerce of the Republic,
as well before as after the war, but particularly such as may
establish the free navigation and the commerce of the Republic,
for the future, upon the most solid foundations, as may confirm
and re-assure it by the strongest bonds of reciprocal interest,
and that, in consequence, the gentlemen, the Deputies at the
Assembly of their High Mightinesses, ought to be authorized on
the part of the Province, as they are by the present, to admit
Mr. Adams to present his letters of credence from the United
States of North America, and to receive the propositions which he
shall make, to make report of them to the Lords, the States of
this Province.
E. LEWE, _Secretary_."

"The States-General, having deliberated the same day upon this
resolution, have _Resolved_, 'That the Deputies of the Province
of Guelderland, which has not yet declared itself upon the same
subject, should be requested to be pleased to do it as soon as
possible.'"

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UTRECHT.

_Extract of the Resolutions of their Noble Mightinesses, the States of
the Province of Utrecht._

10th of April, 1782.

"Heard the report of Mr. de Westerveld, and other Deputies of
their Noble Mightinesses for the Department of War, who, in
virtue of the commissarial resolutions of the 9th of May, 1781,
the 16th of January, and the 20th of March, of the present year,
1782, have examined the resolution of their High Mightinesses of
the 4th of M