Document: Ordinance regulating the currency suspended

Notwithstanding the regulation of the sewant is necessary as more fully set forth in the preceding placard to that effect drawn up, yet in order to act with moderation the director general and first councilor have called before them at the city hall of this city the burgomasters and schepenen and some of the principal inhabitants to hear their opinions regarding the regulation of the sewant, who, having appeared and the regulation of the sewant being submitted to them, they unanimously requested that the placard, drafted for that purpose, may be suspended for the present time until the sewant, which is here at present in great abundance, would be reduced by exportation.[i]

The request being taken into further consideration by the director general and councilors [ of New Netherland it is resolved to suspend the aforesaid ordinance for the present until the sewant be somewhat reduced in quantity. ] Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland the 9th of January anno 1657.