Document: Petition of burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam, in regard to their salaries

[several lines lost] Honorable [

burgomasters and schepenen of the city of Amsterdam in N:

Netherland show with all respect,

Whereas your honors, upon the petition of 22 of January 1658, were pleased to resolve to refer the petitioners to the resolution granted to their request of 28 January 1654, and whereas they, petitioners, examined the resolution of 1654 in which they are informed that they may draw and receive their salary from the revenue of this city, and whereas this is very small and cannot meet the city’s necessary daily expenses, their humble request to your honors is that your honors please provide a more detailed explanation for this. Which doing, we remain your honors’ servants, the burgomasters and schepenen.

By order of the lords burgomasters and schepenen, (was signed) Johannes Nevius, secretary.

In Amsterdam in N: Netherland, the 24th of January 1658.

The foregoing petition having been received and read, after deliberation it is resolved as follows: The director general and councilors believe that the resolution provided is clear enough and does not require further explanation. The petitioners, requesting further explanation nevertheless, and claiming that the city’s revenue is small and cannot meet its necessary daily expenses or the necessities [several lines lost] [ ] when the petitioners say that they [ ] of our last resolution dated the [ 25th ] of this month, consider some means of subsidies out of which the old and newly made city debts, having been satisfied and paid for, the further needed city works and expenses can, first of all, be finished and, consequently, the salary of burgomasters and schepenen settled. Meanwhile, the petitioners shall have to resign themselves to it and follow the written petition of their predecessors and the resolution granted thereto on the 25th of January 1656. Thus done in Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland the 29th of January 1658.