Document: Order on the application of the burgomasters for a transfer of the city tavern, now called the City Hall

At the session the honorable burgomasters of this city of Amsterdam in New Netherland, Allard Antony and Oloff Stevensz Cortlant, request a conveyance or deed for the City Inn now named the City Hall of this city; the lords high councilors give as reply that the instructions of the honorable lords directors was sufficient for them to regulate themselves by, and the lords high councilors acceded [ deferred to them ] thereto. Done in Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra.

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