Document: Order on petition of Augustyn Heerman

[several lines lost] arbitration [ ] is, noch wo [ ] h the [ ] not hindered, but [ ], but whereas in the year 1652 Charles Gabrij [ ], plaintiff, against the petitioner as a fugitive (and after three summons remaining in default) obtained an interlocutory sentence; the director general and councilors cannot dissociate themselves from the sentence pronounced before, unless beforehand the triumphant party, having been informed by interlocutory sentence about innovation or some other evidences, as defendant in reconvention, is given time, place of reply for that. Therefore, the director general and councilors judge and order that before ratifying and approving the arbitration done, or still to be done, that this, together with everything else that the petitioner can produce to his defense or at the expense of Charles Gabrij, be sent over to him by the first ships, with the enclosed charge to reply either himself or through his attorney by the very first ships from patria, on pain of default. Dated as above.

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