Document: Order interdicting Nicholaes Terhaer from selling liquor in future

3 March 1654, N. Amsterdam

Cornelis van Thienhoven, in his capacity as fiscal, plaintiff, against Niclaes ter Haer, defendant; the plaintiff complains, ex officio, about the violence, insolence, fighting and bloodletting committed by the defendant on Poulus Heymans, tapping without the consent of the director and council and also breaking the ordinance against allowing drinking and disorder in one's house after 9 o'clock.[1]

The director-general and council, having heard the complaint with the defendant's reply, order that the defendant come to a settlement with the fiscal and satisfy him, ex officio, with regard to the acts of assault and tapping after hours; in addition, he is prohibited, after this date, from tapping, on pain of being punished for disobedience.

Done at the session of the director-general and council, dated as above; present: the full board.