Document: Ratification of the ordinance regulating the citizens excise by the director and council

The foregoing petition having been placed in the hand of the lord general, it was decided by his honor as follows:

Mitigation of the burgomasters and schepenen on our previous advice is hereby approved, and therefore the burgomasters and schepenen are allowed and authorized to notify and publish the [ amendment ] to the farming of the burgher wine and beer excise in the form hereunto annexed, as seen fit by them and drafted in that form. Done in Amsterdam in New Netherland, dated the 5th of December anno 1656.

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