Document: Appointment of Nicasius de Sille to be sheriff of New Amsterdam

Whereas by order and instructions from the lords directors upon the dismissal of the fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven, the director general and councilors have deemed it best, in order to cause the least disturbance, to allow until further orders, the office of schout be administered, as it has been up to this time filled and administered, by the fiscal Nicasius de Sille. Therefore, the burgomasters and schepenen are hereby requested and ordered to receive the aforesaid Nicasius de Sille at once on their bench, and to allow him to participate and give counsel as the aforenamed Cornelis van Tienhoven did in this capacity; and all that until it be otherwise amplified or ordered therein by the esteemed lords directors or by the director general and councilors as their representatives. Thus done at the session of the honorable lord director general and councilors held in Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 26th of June 1656.

(was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, La Montagne.

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