Document: Appointment of Nicholas Verleth as commissary of imports and exports

Whereas the position of commies of outgoing and incoming goods in the Company’s warehouse here has become and remained vacant until now by the dismissal of Adriaen van Tienhoven, necessity requires (in order to prevent as much as possible smuggling and abuse) that a capable person be employed to oversee and supervise as much as possible that the goods from arriving ships are all brought into the honorable Company’s warehouse and that, in accordance with the manifests and bills of lading, they are placed in the hands of the rightful owners, as well as to receive and keep the goods, which are to be sent to the fatherland, in the honorable Company’s warehouse until the time of embarkation [several lines lost] herewith as commies [ ] outgoing and incoming goods [ ] warehouse and that which depends thereon [ ] observe loyally upon the oath and the instructions already given or to be given, for which service he is allowed for salary thirty guilders per month and 150 guilders annually for board. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman