Document: Ordinance to amend the ordinance imposing an excise on exported liquors

The director general and councilors of New Netherland hereby make known that upon the remonstrance and petition both of the Dutch as well as of the English merchants frequenting this place concerning the duties imposed on exported wines, beer, distilled wines and spirits, they have modified and mitigated the just one-third part in form as follows: in order not to annul the lease and not to prejudice the farmer, the seller has to pay the farmer one-third; the purchaser one-third and the remaining third shall avail the farmer as an offset with the receiver of the director general and councilors, so that the buyer and seller each individually has to pay the farmer only,

For one tun of beer ƒ1:0

For one anker of brandy, Spanish wine or spirits ƒ1:1 For one anker French wine or Rhenish wine ƒ0:11 Larger or smaller amounts in proportion.

Thus done at the session of the honorable lord director general and councilors held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 7th of June 1656.[i]