Document: Order declaring West India sugar free of import duty

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0580b
Description

Order. Declaring West India sugar free of import duty, "for the encouragement of that trade."

Document Date
1657-05-15
Document Date (Date Type)
1657-05-15
Document Type
Order
Minutes
Document Type Unlinked
Order
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Translation
Translation

Having brought before the session whether the sugars imported here from Barbados and other islands should also pay recognition fees for coming in here, it was unanimously declared, no, but to allow such with connivance[i] so as not to hinder the trade in the beginning; however, if the same is exported from this place, a recognition fee of 8 percent shall be paid. Dated as above.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman

Translation Superscripts
[i]: The concept ooghluyckinge, “to wink at” or “to connive,” was employed when an unpopular regulation or law was intentionally ignored without consequence.
References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0580b.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.

Location
Locations (Unlinked)
West India
A1809 Additional Party
Dutch Colonial Council
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch Colonial Council Minutes (Series A1809 _ 1638-1665)
Box
6
Volume
8
Item
580b
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/56183