Document: Ordinance|Burgomasters and Schepenen regarding the weight of bread

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NYC-RNA_V1_070
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Ordinance|Burgomasters and Schepenen regarding the weight of bread |Ordinance|Registration of the bakers: with their marks

Document Date
1661-03-25
Document Date (Date Type)
1661-03-25
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Ordinance, relating to the Bakers and how they are to bake their Bread.

A whole wheat bread must weigh........................8 lbs
A half wheat bread must weigh...........................4 lbs
A whole rye bread must weigh............................8 lbs
A half rye bread must weigh...............................4 lbs
A white bread, sold for 10 stivers must weigh....2 lbs
A white bread, sold for 5 stivers must weigh......1 lbs

The buns or rolls must weigh 2 lbs and not less, the halves in proportion; all this until further orders. And you are hereby further ordered by the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens of this City, to govern yourself accordingly under the penalties, stated in the proclamation, and to designate the bread, you bake, with a special mark under the penalty of forfeiting the bread, found unmarked, and paying a fine of 25 fl. You are also to report the mark, which you intend to use, to the Secretary of this City within three times twenty four hours.
Thus done etc., March 25, 1661.

Marks of the Bakers, which they have reported according to the order of Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens as to be used.

X this is the mark of .... Jacob Teunizen Kay
X this is the mark of .... Hendrick Janzen, baker
X this is the mark of .... Reinier Willemzen Backer (or baker)
X this is the mark of .... Jan Gerrisen from Buytenhuysen *
X this is the mark of .... Andries de Haas
X this is the mark of .... Antony de Milt
X this is the mark of .... Hendrick Willemzen, baker

* Literally the Outside Houses, or Outside of the House.

References

The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini, Volume I Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens 1653-1655, Translations by Edmund O'Callaghan,  Edited by Berthold Fernow,  1897, Published under the authority of the City of New York by the Knickerbocker Press

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