Document: Order to the fiscal to confine Jacquet to the commissary's office until he make up his accounts

Upon the foregoing request the following resolution was made by the honorable director general: The petitioner is ordered to inform himself well regarding the complaints and in the meantime to place the person of Jacquet under arrest in the commissary’s office in order to make up his accounts. Meanwhile he is to make a summary of the complaints against him and hand it in, to make further dispositions thereupon. Amsterdam, the 23rd of May 1657.

(Signed) P. Stuyvesant

By order of the honorable director general. (Signed) C. V. Ruyven, secretary.

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