Document: Petition of Jacques Corteljou to be surveyor-general

[several lines lost] Whereas daily more and more land here will be given out, inhabited, and cultivated and for such a sworn person is required in order to lay out and measure the same in a fit manner; therefore, the petitioner requests to be appointed for the measuring of Company as well as private land, provided that he will earn something annually from the Company and private parties per morgen or per day at the discretion of the director general and councilors etc. (and was signed) Ja. Corteljouw.