Document: Order on a petition of Louris Heyn for remission of duties

At the session, present: the honorable lords high councilors Nicasius de Sille, J. Lamontagne and the honorable fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven. Having read the petition of Louris Heyn, requesting that he be permitted to remove the brandy that he has kept in the warehouse because he has satisfied (so he says) the recognition fee for it in Holland (although such is not indicated on the manifest).

After deliberation, a recommendation was appended as follows: the fiscal is [ ordered ] to hold the goods that the petitioner claims in the warehouse until he proves that the aforesaid goods were recorded in Amsterdam and the recognition fee paid. Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra.