Document: Ordinance regulating the driving of carts, wagons and sleighs in New Amsterdam

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1875-78_V16_pt1_0026a

Description

Ordinance. Regulating the driving of carts, wagons and sleighs in New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1652-06-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-06-27

Document Type

Ordinance

Document Type Unlinked

Ordinance

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Translation

The director general and council of New Netherland do hereby order, for the prevention of accidents, that no wagons, carts or sleighs shall be run, ridden or driven at a gallop within this city of New Amsterdam, but that the drivers and conductors of all wagons, carts and sleighs within this city shall not sit or stand on them; however now henceforth within this city (the broad public highway alone excepted)[1] shall walk by the wagons, carts or sleighs and so take and lead the horses, on the penalty of two pounds Flemish for the first time, and for the second time double, and for the third time to be arbitrarily punished for it, and in addition to be responsible for all damages which may arise therefrom.

Thus done and ordered in the council of the director general and council of New Netherland, the 27th of June 1652.[2]

Translation Superscripts

[1]: De brede heere wech, now lower Broadway,
[2]: Also in LO, 128-29.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1875/NYSA_A1875-78_V16_pt1_0026a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New Netherland Documents Series: Vol. 16, part 1, Laws and Writs of Appeal, 1647-1663 (Syracuse: 1991).

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.