Document: Order referring petitions to trade with foreign countries to the directors at Amsterdam

[several lines lost] exists [ ] which at [ ] are being obtained [ lord directors ] to whom the [ ] of this, with enclosed [ ] and serious recommendations will be sent (:to whom the burgomasters and petitioners, if they think it advisable, can address themselves, as well:). If meanwhile some of the petitioners would like, and have the opportunity, to try an experiment of foreign trade with the merchandise mentioned herein on such conditions as were set by the said lords directors in accordance with the printed exemptions, or how these may be devised at this further request, the director general and councilors will not obstruct this in any way until they will be ordered to do so differently in this matter, but they will favor it as much as reason and fairness demand.

Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman

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