Document: Order of distribution in the matter of the smuggled furs seized on board the Draadvat

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[ ] about the smuggled beavers [ ] expressed how to [ ] them [ ]. The following opinions were given.

Opinion of the lord director general written by himself. It serves as information regarding the confiscated beavers that in general, according to the edict, a third part is for the person who reported.

Because in the sentences of the 11th of this month on the confiscated beavers nothing was expressed about the way this would be applied, it is agreed by a plurality of votes that it will be applied as follows: half of the confiscated beavers will be allocated to the Company because its treasury is not well supplied; a just fourth part for the bench of director general and councilors, who in this case reported the smuggle, and usually, according to the printed edict on contraband and the later order of April 13 of this year, the reporter is promised a third part; the remaining fourth part, half for the fiscal and half for the church. Done in Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 17th of September 1658.

P. Stuyvesant Pieter Tonneman

Lord Deckere recommends on the above subject that the confiscated beavers ought to remain with the Company, and that only the fiscal should enjoy 20 beavers for his execution. Dated as above.