Document: Answer of the director and council to the petition of the burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0146

Description

Answer. The director and council to the preceding petition.

Document Date

1653-11-25

Document Date (Date Type)

1653-11-25

Document Type

Answer

Minutes

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Answer

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Translation

Decision on the foregoing petition:The director-general and council stand by their verbal promise given upon the proposition and reciprocal promise of the mayors and schepens on the 11th of this month, namely, that the director-general and council shall provisionally, and subject to the approval of the lords-directors, cede and grant to the mayors and schepens the collection of the common excise on wine and beer consumed within this city, provided that the mayors and schepens, according to their promise and instructions, furnish means for the maintenance of the public works in the city and the subsistence of the ecclesiastical and political personnel, and that the excise shall be publicly let to the highest bidder according to the custom of the fatherland. Dated 25 November 1653 in New Amsterdam. Below stood: By order of the director-general and council.

Cornelis van Ruyven

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0146.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.