Document: Order to the receiver-general to pay certain outstanding claims against the government

[several lines lost] two of them in [ ] were ordered to [ ] to row with their boat to some neighboring English places in order to learn the truth there, whether the peace between the protector of England and the lords States, of which certain rumors were heard here, was concluded or not. For this reason they each were out for six days at 3 guilders a day, amounting to 18 guilders each, together 36 guilders.

Secondly, Wessel Evertsen still demands the sum of 44 guilders for various journeys that he was on with the commissary to one place or another for wheat and other things for the Company, as is shown on his account. And whereas this surprised the director general and councilors, and it hardly seems credible that this had remained unpaid for by the former receiver for so long, the said persons were summoned to the meeting, and asked through the court whether they had not received payment for the said labor; they declared on their man’s honor, no.

Also appeared in the meeting Christiaen Barentsen timmerman, who declared that he had not been paid wages for labor done on the Company’s windmill in 1652, five days at 4 guilders a day. Having heard the explanation, the receiver is ordered to pay each aforesaid person his due. Dated as above.