Document: Judgment in the case of the fiscal vs. Thomas Hall

Cornelis van Thienhooven, fiscal, by virtue of his office, plaintiff against Thomas Hal, defendant; the plaintiff demands satisfaction for some smuggled malt. The defendant answers that he bought and paid for the same from Thomas Willeth, who instructed him to fetch it from Thomas Santfoort's bark.

Mr. Willeth, examined at the session, acknowledges selling the malt to Thomas Hal for the account of a young man named Thomas Santfoort, and [ says ] that Thomas Hal fetched it from the ship.

The honorable director-general and high council, having seen the charge of the fiscal and heard the answer of the defendant, have ordered that the defendant, Thomas Hal, pay to the receiver the tariff on the aforesaid malt and to settle the dispute with the treasury. Done in New Amsterdam, 20 October 1654; present: the honorable General Petrus Stuyvesant, Mr. de Sille and Mr. La Montangne.