Document: Ordinance|Bakers penalty and fines Formerly Unidentified document

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NYC-RNA_V1_071
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Ordinance

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1661-09-17
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Hereby all bakers in this City are ordered by their Honors, the Burgomasters and Schepens, that from the date hereof and as soon as these presents shall have been communicated to them they are to bake for the convenience of the burghers and inhabitants as well as others, who may need it good wheat and white bread, whenever they have the flour to do it, under the penalty of being forbidden to bake for a year and six weeks and a fine of 50 fl., payable by him, who shall be found to have flour and not to have baked. A fine of 25 fl. shall be paid by all, who do not bake good and eatable bread.
Thus done etc., September 17, 1661.

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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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