Document: Order to certain tavern-keepers at Fort Orange to pay the excise on pain of prosecution

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Whereas Pieter Adriaensen alias Soogemackelijck, Maria Goosens, and Adriaen Jansen van Leyden, all tappers and tapsters near Fort Orange in New Netherland, notwithstanding the order of the director, issued 13 May and renewed 21 June and 27 July, last past, have continued to be disobedient and contrary in submitting themselves to the assessment of the impost, and consequently in paying the customary beer and wine excise, they are hereby once again ordered to make immediate settlement; otherwise, remaining in arrears, the provisional commissary Johan de Deckere is ordered, whether voluntarily or against their will, to send the same here immediately in a secure manner in order that proceedings may be instituted against them according to the stipulations of the law. Ady ut supra.

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