Document: Resolution of the Amsterdam chamber concerning overpayment of duty; Resolution of the Amsterdam chamber concerning payment of a debt in New Netherland

Upon the petition of Srs. Gillis Verbruggen, Jan van Hardenberg, and Wouter van Twiller it was consented that compensation shall be made to them by the director in New Netherland and paid whatever the aforesaid persons paid out in excess in the previous years for recognition on mechantable beavers, just as the same has already been touched upon in the general letter to the aforesaid director, and an extract shall be made of this resolution for distribution.

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