Document: Order in council on the letter from Jacob Jansen Huys' wife to director Stuyvesant

[several lines lost] has [ ] a letter [ ], enclosed [ ] as is [ ] with the copy of the letter by the wife of skipper Jacob Jansen Huijs to the said skipper, her husband, along with four anckers of brandy sent some contraband goods, of which goods nothing is known on the ship the Beer, about which his advice is requested as to what to do in this case.

Having taken it into consideration it is resolved, because this was communicated to his honor in good faith, obviously out of ignorance, to prefer grace to rigor of justice, and to have the anckers of brandy delivered to Jacob Jansen Huijs, provided he pay the usual recognition fee. Concerning the contraband, to have the same handed over to commissary Verbrugge for the benefit of the Chartered West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam, and to pay the aforesaid Jacob Jansz for it in Holland, so that he could purchase the same there, or here at 50 percent advance, for which he is given the choice. Dated as above.

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