Document: Order to Paulus van der Beecq to deliver good stringed wampum to the burgomasters in payment of the excise rent

[several lines lost] received, whereas the [ ] had qualified [ ] sentence [ ] to have his party do the same [ ] and that the same sewant is now refused by the honorable burgomasters.

The honorable lords burgomasters being summoned and having appeared, answer that they had not entirely refused the sewant, but only that they would have the loose pieces therein strung.

The director general and councilors having heard the parties, Mr. Poulus is ordered to deliver well strung sewant to the burgomasters according to the conditions of the farming out and that he should not bring such disputes before the director general and councilors again, unless in a case of appeal. Dated as above.

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