Document: Order on the foregoing suit between Warnaer Wessels and Egbert van Borsum

Having read and reread the papers and documents produced by Warnaer Wessels, farmer of the excise, plaintiff, and the honorable officer assigned thereto, and Egbert van Borsum, defendant, regarding a certain dispute involving the export of wines and beers in the beginning of the troubles, as the defendant declared here to have fled to the fort; the submitted papers and documents having been examined, we find the defendant to have exported from this jurisdiction, out of the cellars of merchants, into another [ jurisdiction ] without having a proper bill of sale for it and without certified workers, and that it was done after the increase in the excise, which is only contrary to the ordinances and placard of the honorable high and mighty Lords States General but also the ordinances and placards of the director general and councilors directed toward the tavernkeepers and tappers; therefore, we declare the wines and beers, which have been transported from one jurisdiction to another without a bill of sale, to be confiscated, and further condemn the defendant to be fined f300:0, to be applied according to placard, cum expensis. Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne.