Document: Order to the fiscal to take an inventory of Van Tienhoven's personal effects

The highly esteemed director general decided the above request as follows: The plaintiff, as protector of the law, is provisionally allowed and authorized, in the presence of both burgomasters and whomever the wife of the absent Cornelis van Tienhooven wants to add to that, to make a proper inventory of the effects left behind and to seize the same in the most convenient manner, whether with security in the hands of his housewife, or otherwise have them secured with the least commotion until the accounts of his receipts have been examined and balanced; in the meanwhile, also to forbid and prevent the secretaries from passing any conveyance of real property belonging to the aforesaid absent Tienhoven. Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 21st of December 1656.

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