Document: Decision on the appeal of Jacob Jansz Huysz

The director general and councilors having examined the documents and papers produced at the session by Allard Antony, attorney of Jacob Jansz Huys, appellant in a writ of restitution, and Pieter Rudolphus, defendant, and, in addition, having seen the recommendation of the arbitrators, to whom the dispute between Allard Antony and Pieter Rudolphus had been referred, the director general and councilors are conform with the determination of the aforesaid arbitrators; namely, that the skipper shall lose the freight and the merchant his goods, to wit, the barrel of brandy in question, and condemn the parties each party to bear his own expenses, except those incurred by the last appointed arbitrators, which the parties shall split half and half. Ady ut supra (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, Cornelis van Tienhoven.