Document: Order of Cornelis Schut to remove salt from the City Hall

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0029b

Description

Order. Cornelis Schut to remove salt from the City Hall, which is granted to the common council.

Document Date

1655-04-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-04-13

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

At the session, present: the honorable lords high councilors Nicasius de Sille, Lamontagne, and the lord fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven. Having read the petition of Cornelis Schut, requesting that the resolution of the lords burgomasters, [ ].

After due deliberation, it was resolved that since the honorable lords directors of the West India Company, our lords and patroons, have granted the city hall to the burgomasters of this city, the high councilors of New Netherland are unable to administer over it. Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra, the 13th of April 1655.[1]

Translation Superscripts

[1]: The city of Amsterdam had recently received the City Hall for its own use from the council. However, Schut’s salt, which was stored in City Hall, made repair and use of the building difficult. Hence, Schut was ordered to remove the salt on March 1,1655. By April 12, Schut was again ordered to remove the salt on penalty of having the city remove it at his expense. Schut must have then appealed the burgomasters’ decision to the council. By August 23, Schut still had not removed the salt, despite two more warnings. See RNA, 1:291-92,304,340,348.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0029b.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.