Translation
Notice to all persons to settle their accounts with the company within 15 days, and not to pay or give credit to any one on the company's account
Everyone is hereby given notice that the Company’s books of accounts shall be closed at the end of this month of June, whereby all merchants, factors, skippers, traders, freepersons, and Company servants are hereby warned that they have 14 days from this date to bring in and submit, and to show by honest account or order, what is owed them by the director general and councilors; likewise, they also find out and learn from the bookkeeper what they owe to the Company and for what.
Furthermore, everyone is warned to pay or send no one anything on account of the Company except on order of the director general or by receipt of the secretary Cornelis van Ruyven, which shall validate their accounts. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland the 2nd of June 1656.
References
Translation: Gehring, C., & Venema, J. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 8, Council Minutes, 1656-1658 Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press: 2018.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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