Document: Ordinance|Burgomasters and Schepenen establishing markets for lean and fat cattle

The Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens of the City of Amsterdam in N.N. to All etc.  Greeting!
Know ye, that for the convenience of everybody it has been deemed best and decided to establish in this City and jurisdiction a market of lean and fat cattle, oxen, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, bucks and the like and with the approval of the Director General and Council to have made and put up convenient stalls for the benefit of everybody bringing cattle to the market. If any animals cannot be satisfactorily sold, they shall be again ferried over for nothing. Everybody is also hereby notified, that the time, when lean cattle may be brought to the market shall begin on the 1st of May and end on the last day of the same month, the time for fat cattle shall begin on the 20th of October and last until the 30th of November precisely every year: during which periods it shall be a free cattle market and no stranger shall then be liable to arrest or be subject to a summons, but unmolested he may attend to his business. Let everybody govern himself accordingly.
Thus done etc., January 7, 1659.