Document: Order to the fiscal to search a vessel in the harbor of New Amsterdam

3 September, Tuesday.

Present at the meeting, the honorable lord director general, Petro Stuyvesant, the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille, Pieter Tonneman and Johan de Deckere.

For reasons moving the director general and councilors thereto, it is resolved that the lord director general on a certain convenient day when his honor thinks it best, will order and direct the fiscal to inspect the ship t’ Draatvadt (at present lying here on the North River) and in order to do such properly according to the requirements, the fiscal shall be provided with two schouwen and the honorable Company’s yacht, and all the Company’s Negroes.

Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

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