Document: Order empowering Jan Jansen Bestevaer to sell certain goods left in his hands as security by Edmund Scharburgh

[several lines lost] Petrus Stuyvesant [ ] and councilors Nicasius de Sille and La Montagne.

Received the request of Jan Jansz Bestevaer together with the papers serving as verification, especially Edmund Scarburgh’s own writing, in which it is stated that the lead and serge, in case of appeal for non payment of the six thousand pounds of tobacco, have been bound thereto as a special mortgage, and has been approved and ordered by the owner to be sold and to convert the product to the benefit of the petitioner as a decrease of the aforesaid tobacco, as can be seen in more detail in the principle and other papers relating thereto in the hands of the secretary. After due deliberation it was decided that the petitioner be allowed to have the serge sold publicly to the highest bidder. With regard to the lead, it being contraband and forbidden merchandise (as far as it is evident to the director general and councilors) and without being declared or the Company’s [ ] accepted and [ ] for the value of the [ ] an advance of 50 percent [ ] of the one and the other [ ] written charge and order of the [ ] who left it as security, remaining [ ] for the benefit of the petitioner, provided that he, petitioner, posts security as restitution in as much as it might be proved that these thousand pounds of tobacco were shipped or paid for according to contract. Dated and done as above. (was signed) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille and La Montagne.