Document: Order to the Dutch towns to send delegates to New Orange to confer with the governor

Schout Jacob Strycker.

You are hereby required and ordered to notify the Dutch Towns situate In your district, to commission each of them a Militia officer and Magistrate from their respective Towns, with whom you will repair, on Monday next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to the City Hall of this city, when I intend to have some conference with you on the present state of the country.Whereupon relying, I remain

A similar order is also transmitted to the Schouts of the Towns of Bergen and Haerlem.

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