Document: Ordinance notifying in what currency certain duties are to be paid

The traders and merchants are hereby informed that the recognition of the remitted four per hundred, as well as the 30 stivers per hundred of tobacco, is to be paid at the general office of the secretary in current monies as is current in the fatherland, or, by lack thereof, in commodities needed by the honorable Company, but not marked up more than 50 percent, just as the Company normally grants to its officials; regarding the other return merchandise, until further orders, 8 percent will suffice in specie or commodities, and to be settled at the price as stated before and not higher. The provisional receiver and bookkeeper are hereby ordered to regulate themselves accordingly. Done at Fortress Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 18th of May 1656.