Translation
Answer to the petition of the burgomasters for power to collect the assessment made for the repair of the public works
The foregoing petition having been read at the session, the following recommendation was extended after due deliberation of the same:
Pursuant to the resolution and action of the director general and councilors, dated 11 October 1655, the burgomaster and schepens are sufficiently qualified and authorized to constrain the disaffected to make payment, to which the director general and councilors once again refer themselves. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, Cornelis van Tienhoven.
References
Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 6, Council Minutes, 1655-1656 (Syracuse: 1995). A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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