Document: Order confiscating a quantity of smuggled beaver found on board the ship Draadvat

[several lines lost] [ the skipper ] [ ] in addition [ ] the said ship [ ] his demand in writing [ ] smuggled beavers, and other [ ] inspecting the said ship [ ] were not declared, nor were any recognition fees [ paid ], shall be confiscated for as much as they concern the defendants, and each of them is condemned to pay a fine of twice as much as the value of his smuggled goods.

The defendants, answering in writing, confess that the confiscated beavers and peltries were not declared, saying that they received the same as their voeringe [i] and a little merchandise that they brought along, requesting that they might be forgiven mercifully for whatever they did wrong in this regard, and that the confiscated peltries be returned to them or, if granted differently, to come to an agreement about it.

The director general and councilors having heard the fiscal’s demand and claim and the defendants’ confession and account, as an example to other such smugglers and willful offenders of the honorable lords directors’ edicts, declare the beavers and peltries that were not declared and for which no recognition fees were paid, confiscated, as they hereby confiscate them, to be applied properly according to the edicts, denying the fiscal’s further demand on and against the defendants. Dated as above.

How these confiscated peltries were applied appears in this register under the date of the 17th of this month.