Document: Appointment of hon. Johannes la Montagne and burgomaster Anthony to lay out streets in New Amsterdam

[ The aforesaid request of the burgomasters of this city being taken into serious consideration by the director ] general and councilors, they find the survey particularly necessary; therefore, the honorable councilor Lamontagne and the honorable burgomaster Allard Antony, together with the regular surveyor, are hereby ordered and authorized, without regard to persons, gardens or places, to advance the desired survey, as soon as they are able, so that the interested parties may be better accommodated at a reasonable price. In the event that the aforesaid survey should happen to run through someone’s garden, the aforementioned gentlemen are especially authorized to appraise the lots, which fall among the condemned ground according to the survey, in the most equitable and civil manner, leaving only the approval thereof for the knowledge and advice of the director general and councilors. Done at the session of the honorable lord director general and councilors held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra.