Translation
Register of ordinances and placards in this volume [6]
9. Orders or Instructions of the marshal.
21. Orders on the inspection of tobacco.
70. Ordered that recognition duty of 10 percent be paid for Negroes who are transported from here to some place else.
75. Ordered a day of prayer.
95. Orders against removal of posts and rails, and clapboards.
103. Ordered that no one shall go alone into the country without the knowledge of the director general and councilors.
146. Forbidden to keep goats between the fort and the Fresh Water.
148. Ordered to continue with the survey of this city’s lots.
207. Order against shooting on New Year’s and May Day etc.
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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