Document: Answer of director and council declining to separate the office of city sheriff from that of fiscal

The foregoing petition is given the following response. The director general and councilors reviewed the last previous orders, advice and directives of the honorable lords directors dated 26 April of this past year 1655, in which the aforesaid lords patroons advise that the office of schout be taken care of provisionally by the fiscal; therefore, the director general and councilors are unable to make a separation therein without a countermanding order or at least further instructions from the aforesaid lords directors. Done in New Netherland, the 7th of June 1656.

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