Document: Proposals from the court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, with the answers of the director and council

shall transport, store, remove or lay in any wines, brandies, liquors or [ strong beers ] before and until he receives from or shows to the farmer, collector, or someone else appointed thereto, an excise certificate, upon which is indicated whether such wines, liquors and beers are being fetched, transported, laid in or stored for a tapster or for a citizen, on pain of forfeiting such wines, liquors or beers and five times the value thereof. Done at New Amsterdam, 18 November 1654; and was signed: P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montangne.

At the session appeared Pieter Hartgers, in the capacity of representative of the magistrates of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck, who proposed and requested, both verbally and in writing, the following, to which the honorable director-general and council responded, as is written in the margin:[221]