Document: Notice to all persons having public property in their possession

[several lines lost] at the chamber [ ] to make an inventory of the honorable Company’s effects, [ nothing ] excepted, in order to know exactly and see what and how many effects the honorable Company has here. Therefore, in order that this can be done and begun the sooner, we authorized from the midst of our meeting the honorable lord Jan de Deckere to employ all possible means and promote that this, our resolution and order, will be observed and begun by anyone who has the use of any effects of the Company at the first suitable opportunity. On the other hand, we likewise ordain and order everyone to whom it somehow may concern, at the aforesaid lord De Deckere’s order and command, as soon as possible to honestly and in good faith make an inventory of the Company’s effects and goods that have been entrusted and given for use, and to deliver the signed inventory to said lord De Deckere, so that we can use it when appropriate.

Thus done in Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland the 25th of May 1659 [sic].