Document: Order referring to arbitrators a difference in accounts between Cornelis Schut and Maria Verleth

Having received the interlocutory judgment of burgomasters and schepens pronounced on 8 April 1656 in the dispute of accounts between Cornelis Schut by power of attorney, plaintiff, and Maria Verleth, defendant, the director general and councilors conform with the judgment of the burgomasters and schepens as long as the books of Jan van Beecq are examined in the presence of one of the burgomasters or schepens, before two commissioners appointed thereto by the burgomasters and schepens, or yet to be appointed, together with the inventory of remaining chatties, and that after examination by the aforesaid commissioners to settle the account as much as possible, and to report their findings.[1] Thus done in Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra.