Document: Order empowering owners to remove tobacco from the ship King Solomon if they please

Anno 1654, 29 June, New Amsterdam.

Duty and (next to God) the safety of the country demands that the ship,[1] pursuant to the aforesaid resolution,[2] to remain here until the arrival of another or [ ] another 14 or 16 days, or [ ] better and more certain news [ ] . In regard to the complaints of the petitioners concerning the spoiling of their tobacco loaded on board, the director-general and council, wishing to give them total satisfaction, have already directed the skipper, as he is now being directed, to keep all the hatches of the ship open, so that if the freighters feel that their tobacco is in danger of spoiling aboard the ship, they can choose to have it brought to the Company's warehouse, at the expense of the director-general and council, where it will be inspected and kept until the ship departs. Thus done at the session of the honorable director-general and high council held in New Amsterdam in New Netherland 29 June 1654; and was signed: P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, C. van Werckhoven, La Montangne, Cornelis van Thienhooven.