Document: Petition of Solomon La Chair for a writ of appeal from a judgment of the city court

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Received the petition of [ ] Chair, protesting that [ ] aggrieved by a certain [ ] dated 2 of this month, pronounced by the magistrate of this city, between him and Jan Laurensz; therefore, he requests that it be taken up and received in appeal. After due deliberation it was decided to take up and hear the petitioner’s writ of appeal on the condition of paying at the secretary’s office twelve guilders according to custom. Dated as above.

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