Summary
Statutory Text
Further, in order to prevent such dangers of isolated murders and assassinations, the Director General and Council, with the advice of the Burgomasters of this city, cannot for the present devise any better or other expedient than already stated, and besides that, to interdict and forbid the admission of any Indians with a gun or other weapon, either in this city or in the Flatland, into the Villages and Hamlets, or into any Houses or any places, on pain of forfeiting such arms, which may and also shall be taken from them, on the complaint of the Inhabitants, by the Sheriffs, Marshals, or, in their absence, by one of the Magistrates, to wit: 14 days after the publication and posting hereof, or after notice and communication of ths interdict have been given to the Indians, which the Director General and Council hereby order to be communicated to the Indians, which the Director General and Council hereby order to be communicated to the Indians by some of their subjects acquainted with the Indian language, and that in the most civil and properest manner, it being intended and meant by the director general and council, with the advice of he Burgomasters aforesaid, only to prevent all difficulties between the Christians and Indians.