Document: Resolution to issue an ordinance on the subject of citizenship

The foregoing advice of the [ ] general and councilors having been read [ ] debated, and deliberated, the honorable lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and Pieter Tonnemans, unanimously concur with the advice of the lord director general Stuyvesant, inserted above, and it is resolved and determined to draft an ordinance thereof in the form of a placard and to publish and post it tomorrow, as is appropriate. Dated as above.

Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonnemans

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