Document: Order on a petition of the tobacco inspectors

Having read the petition of Pieter Linde and Isaacq de Foreest, inspectors of New Netherland tobacco (copied in the copy book of petitions on folio [blank]), requesting that all tobacco, none excepted, be subject to inspection; also, that an order be established for the fee (when the tobacco is declared unsuitable), it was decided after deliberation that the petitioners be referred to their instructions granted them concerning the inspection of tobacco; what regards the New Netherland tobacco, the inspectors must examine it and mark the barrels here in order to maintain its reputation; concerning the Virginia tobacco, buyer and seller are free to deliver and receive the same with or without inspection, and if the inspectors are requested to do so, they must offer their services, provided they receive their standard salary.

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. 4 June 1655.