Document: Order to notify Warnaer Wessels, farmer of the excise, that he cannot hold any office under the company

[several lines lost] and considered that Warnaer Wessels, who was hired here as a clerk in the service of the Company, and who consequently is an officer of the aforesaid Company, on the 30th of November last remained farmer of the tappers’ excise of this city, it is resolved to show the order mentioned above to the aforesaid Warnaer Wessels, and to dismiss him from the aforesaid service, as he hereby is dismissed from it, which will be announced to him in the next meeting. Dated as above.

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