and Council, to prevent the above mentioned evil practices, from this time forth hereby expressly interdict and forbid the slaughtering any cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, or goats, by any person or by the owners of the same, in the Towns, plains, villages, and Hamlets of this Province, unless the owner of such animals on the same day on which he intends to slaughter them informs either the magistrate of the town under whose jurisdiction he resides, or such person as may be authorized by the magistrate to act in his place, of his intention and obtains a permit for slaughtering said animal, on the penalty

of the confiscation of the slaughtered animal, and also of paying double its value.

For every permit

the owner shall pay to the magistrate or to the receiver appointed for that purpose for the benefit of the community, one stuy ver (2 cts.) on every guilder the slaughtered animal is justly valued at.

In

places the money obtained for such permits shall be reserved for times of need or difficulty, and

all

then be used to pay those who

may be employed by the villages, to levy soldiers, and to purchase

such ammunition as the occasion may require. be divided as follows

:

The penalty for killing animals without a permit shall

one third to the informer, one third to the officer, and one third to the Town.

Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherlands, this 18 th January 1660. The above is the ordinance of the Noble Lord Director General of New Netherland. Witness