Document: Ordinance obliging boarding house keepers to pay excise in certain cases

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1046a
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Ordinance. Obliging boarding house keepers to pay excise in certain cases.

Document Date
1658-11-28
Document Date (Date Type)
1658-11-28
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Ordinance
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Translation
Translation

[ Whereas the director general and councilors are certainly informed that some persons, under pretense of keeping boarders, sell ] wines, beers, [ and strong liquors, to the prejudice of the general revenue and of the tavern keepers who publicly follow that business; in order to prevent the same, it is ] resolved and ordered by the director general and councilors that all [ those ] who are keeping some boarders shall pay half the tappers’ excise on the wines, beers, and strong liquors that they will lay in and consume. Dated as above.[i]

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the  New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source: New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 8.

Translation Superscripts
[i]: Recovered text from translation in LO, 364.
References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1046a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the
New Netherland Institute website.

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