Document: Order continuing to the colonie of Renselaerwyck privileges for one year

At a Meeting of the Commanders and Honorable Council of War, holden at Fort Willem Hendrik the 4th September, Anno 1673.

Mr. Jeremias van Renselaer entering, requests by petition, in substance, confirmation of the previous privileges granted by their High Mightinesses to the Colonic Renselaerswyck.

Ordered: The Petitioner is allowed and granted to enjoy, provisionally, his previous privileges for the term of one current year, on condition of contributing and paying, as heretofore, the quantity of three hundred skepels of wheat per annum; and the Petitioner shall, as heretofore, from a double number to be nominated by the inhabitants of Renselaerswyck, elect three Magistrates for the ensuing year and obtain the approbation of the supreme government here for them; provided, always, that said privileges shall not continue longer than the space of one current year, within which time the aforenamed Renselaer shall be bound to obtain new privileges from their High Mightinesses, &c.; or, failing the same, he shall be occluded from said privileges.

This day Mr. Renselaer took the oath of allegiance before the Council.