Document: Order referring the petition of Harmen Jacobs to the court at Fort Orange

The foregoing request was received, read and after consideration was decided as follows: [several lines lost] to look into the [ ] and [ ] general that the colony [ ] conditions of farming [ ] excise, for and on behalf of the fort and village consented and be exempt; therefore, the person [ ] lord Renselaer as chief officer of aforesaid colony, providing nevertheless that his [ ] and other coloniers fetch an exemption permit[i] in order to prevent fraud; to which the director general and councilors conform for the present time and until further information. Thus done at the session as before. Dated as above.