Document: Letter from director and council to burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam

[several lines lost] Nicasius de [ Sille ]

It is resolved to send the foregoing [ order ] on the salary of the secretaries, notaries, etc. to the burgomasters and schepenen of this city, and in addition to write the following:

Honorable, dear, special,

This only serves to accompany our enclosed order and resolution on the salaries of the secretaries, notaries, clerks, and the like officers, which order you shall announce and have observed by the aforesaid officers at your honorable court according to its tenor.

Furthermore, in this time of nomination and election of new magistrates of this city, having examined and seriously considered the small number of great burghers and consequently the few changes of competent persons, we, for those and other reasons moving us thereto [several lines lost] Isaacq de Foreest, Fredrick Lubbertsz, Borger Jorissen, Nicolaes Varleth, Jeronimus Ebbingh, Pieter Prins, whom we hereby qualify and favor with the great burgher right. Done in Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland, the 28th of January 1658.