Document: Answer that action will be taken on van Tienhoven's petition when he furnishes details of his accounts

In session, present: the lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant and the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and J. La Montagne.

The preceding petition having been received and read, has been granted, after deliberation, the following response:

The director general and councilors respond that they are still unaware of both the general receipts and expenditures of the petitioner as receiver of the Company’s recognition fees, as well as the petitioner’s private advances and particularly to whom to assign the petitioner; when the director general and councilors are somewhat informed about the matter, a closer attention will be paid to the petitioner’s request according to the state of the treasury. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 June 1656.

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