Document: Order to Mattheus de Vos and Peter Rudolfus to report on the wages paid in Amsterdam to public porters

Whereas, notwithstanding the order made [ ] on the workers’ wages, we have received complaints from various merchants that the workers at the warehouse disobeyed and almost take from the merchants what they want, or at least interpret and explain the established order poorly, whereby the wages, mainly on the wet goods, have increased much. Therefore, we unanimously see fit to order some of the most prominent merchants to submit at the office of the secretary their account of wages, and at the same time to qualify and authorize Mattheus de Vos and Pieter Rudolphus (both having been wine merchants in the fatherland) that they shall sometime submit at the office of secretary what one pays for a barrel of wine at Amsterdam to be brought up, put in the cellar, transported or moved in order to determine somewhat the wages for it here. Dated as above.