Document: Ordinance|Director General and Council regulating bakers

The Director General and Council of New Netherland to All, who shall see these presents or hear them read, Greeting.
Know Ye, that many complaints have been made to us by many people, in regard to the scarcity of coarse bread and light weight of white bread, with which the good inhabitants cannot be sufficiently supplied by the bakers. The cause of it being, that the savages or natives of this country take the white bread from the bakers without inquiry for or scrutiny of the black bread or price in strung wampum, which the inhabitants cannot do, as they have no such wampum. Consequently greed and the desire for greater profits cause the savage and barbarous natives to be accommodated with the best before the Christian nation and therefore the Director General and Council, desiring to provide for the best and in the most convenient manner at this time, ordain and hereby direct, that henceforth and until further orders no baker shall bake fine bolted or white bread or cakes for sale or sell to natives and Christians under forfeiture of the baked white bread and a fine of 50 Carolusguilders, to be applied as it ought to be: provided however that every inhabitant may bake or cause to be baked for his own household and meals such quantities of white bread, as occasion may require, their Honors wishing hereby only to forbid, as they hereby do, the wanton consumption and general sale of white bread and cakes to inhabitants as well as to natives, and thus to prevent the frauds, by these means practised with the common bread, which is sold: that however inhabitants and natives may not be inconvenienced in regard to weight the Director and Council ordain, that the bakers, who henceforth make it a business to bake for sale, are to bake from clean wheat or clean rye, as it comes from the mill, a loaf weighing 8, 4 or 2 pounds at the prices, which the Honble Court shall form time to time fix according to the price and arrival of grain.
Thus done etc., November 8, 1649. Signed as above.