Document: Order to the receiver-general to credit Warnaer Wessels with 125 guilders

According to the resolution on the first [ ] in Warnaer Wessels’ petition, which was received and examined on the 26th of February last, the conditions on which the product of the weighhouse of this city was farmed out on 8 April 1656, and having heard the report of some who were present at the aforesaid farming and who partially agree with Warnaer Wessels’ remonstrance, the director general and councilors, for reasons argued by said Wessels in the first point of his petition included previously under date 26 February, find his request to be reasonable. Therefore, they order their receiver to credit the petitioner with the requested one hundred and twenty-five guilders as a settlement. Done in Fort Amsterdam, the 5th of March 1658.