Document: Minutes of council respecting the recent survey of the city of New Amsterdam

At the session, after pro and con deliberation concerning the recently concluded street survey, recommendations thereon were offered as follows:

Recommendation of the honorable lord general Petrus Stuyvesant, made of his own accord.

My recommendation is that the street survey, upon approval, shall be set off and laid out with stakes in the streets for now, and afterwards established according to the plan, as laid out in the model and plan of Frederick de Coninck, and previously exhibited here at the session by the lord burgomaster Allard Anthony, and at that time approved by the director general and councilors, and to remain so without making any changes in it; and that the promotion thereof be handed over to the lords burgomasters, provided that they announce publicly that each and everyone is to submit within the period of [left blank] what he judges he has lost through the street survey. Having heard the charge, and the burgomasters being unable to agree with the parties regarding the evaluation that the dispute be referred to two or three impartial persons who have no vested interest in the street survey. Having done so, and a general computation having been made, to appraise the lots according to this amount, and to give them out to those who are most ready to build, provided that the owners of those lots that are in their possession remain in their possession until payment thereof and be preferred before others to undertake their own construction, if they should have the opportunity to do so within the period of one year.