Document: Order to restore Cornelis Martense certain wine formerly seized

[several lines lost] Whereas according to a report [ ] commissioned to inspect and examine [ ] Cornelis Martense, factor, [ ] of the Groote Christoffel [ ] it is found that the former fiscal of New Netherland, Cornelis van Tienhoven, erroneously seized two half amen of brandy and two half amen Spanish wine, shipped by Cornelis Martensen, factor, in the aforesaid ship, in addition to a larger consignment, and of which the recognition fee was paid in the fatherland; the director general and councilors allow and permit the aforesaid factor to accept and take the two half amen Spanish wine, as it is reported that they are still on hand, to be taken to him; and the commissary is ordered and instructed to credit Cornelis Martensen for the two half amen of brandy, which Cornelis van Tienhoven on behalf of the Company sold, according to the journal of the bookkeeper Carel Verbrugge, one half aem reckoned against ten beavers. Thus done at the session of the lord director general and councilors held in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 8th of November anno 1656.

Was signed,

P. Stuyvesant