Document: Order on a complaint of the fiscal vs. William Brouwer

At the session the lord fiscal d’Sille had a small package brought and opened from the ship the Vergulden Otter consigned to Willem Brouwer, schoenmaecker, while on the same manifest as only some shoemakers’ goods were declared; therefore, in Holland no recognition fee was charged, and whereas three pieces of Russian leather[i] and three pieces of Spanish leather, 20 lbs. of shoemaker’s twine, was found therein, which [several lines lost] in Holland [ ] to amount to ƒ40:7:– [ ] paid for recognition fee ƒ3.

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