Document: Approval of the ordinance enacted at Fort Orange against runners who follow Indians in the woods to secure their furs

On Tuesday, 27 July 1655.

At the session, present: the honorable director general Petrus Stuyvesant, the honorable lords councilors Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, and the lord fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven.

Having read the ordinance enacted by the court of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwijck against going into the woods by the Dutch in order to attract the Indians and take their beavers, as can be seen in more detail by the same, it has been resolved, after deliberation, to respond [ ] ordinance dated [ ] by the provision [ ] and the magistrates of [ ] Beverwijck concerning the walking into the woods of the Dutch in order to attract the Indians and their beavers, the director general and councilors of New Netherland express their pleasure and hereby approve of the same, with command and order that it be provisionally enforced against the offenders according to the tenor of the same. Ady ut supra, (was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, N. de Sille, La Montagne.