Document: Order on a petition of Peter Ryverding, clerk of the court at Fort Orange, allowing him part of his salary

Having read the petition of Pieter Rij verdingh, clerk and court messenger at Fort Orange (copied in the copy book of petitions) [ the preceding passage has been canceled indicating that this pro forma statement did not apply to petitions from Fort Orange ], requesting that whereas he has not been paid for a long time that by one means or another he be credited f300 upon his account for salary earned, as can be seen fuller in his petition, it was decided after due deliberation that the petitioner, being a servant of the commonalty as messenger and clerk, must also be paid from the revenue of the commonalty; only out of consideration of his need shall commissary Dijckman and the magistrates of the village of Beverwijck be informed that for this one time and provisionally he shall be paid from the excise on wine and beer one hundred and fifty guilders. The remainder of his claim is delayed until the arrival of the honorable lord director general. Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. 4 June 1655.