Document: Petition of Johannes Pietersen referred to the burgomasters and schepens

After deliberation it was decided as follows: Let it serve as a reply that the stated sum was entered in the Company’s books without the knowledge and consequently without the order of the director general and councilors; and also, according to the admission of the petitioner himself, that it has no association with the Company’s accounts, as the petitioner himself says that he advanced the sum to the city; therefore, payment must be solicited from the rulers of the same; all the more so, because last year the director general and councilors have allowed and permitted them, in order to pay off these and other incurred debts, a voluntary assessment for the sum of about 5 to 6 thousand guilders; and, the director general and councilors, if requested, are prepared and inclined to [ ] together with the burgomasters and schepenen [ ] Done at Fort Amsterdam, dated [ 9 ] August 1656.