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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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them to lose themselves in the mazesof those abstruse treatises; they preferred, however, as a rule,to render their decisions by the aid of what is sometimesknown as horse sense. They were fond of settling casesinformally by inducing parties to accept their advice beforegoing to trial: failing this, they were apt to send the casesfor arbitration to one or two good men, whom they wouldselect out of the community, with instructions to reconcilethe contending parties, if possible; in one case, in the year1662, where a question of the sewing of linen caps was in-volved, the court went so far as to appoint certain goodwomen as arbitrators. As to the portion of the Stadt Huys building used for thesessions of the court, Mr. D. T. Valentine has found someevidence, apparently, that it was the eastern side of thesecond story, — for he asserts this to have been the fact. In1670, however, Governor Francis Lovelace, who had acquired aplot of ground immediately adjoining the Stadt Huys, upon the
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GOVERNOR LOVELACES TAVERN 189 west, commenced the erection of an inn, or ordinary upon theplot, and sent a communication to the magistrates in the earlypart of that year to know whether they would allow him tobuild the upper part of the house something over the passageof the town which lieth between the State House and thelott, and to make a doore to go from the upper part of thehouse into the Courts Chambers. This proposition—whichwas agreed to by the magistrates, leaving it to the governorsdiscretion to pay what was thought fit for the vacant strookeof ground lying between the buildings, and moreover notto cut off the entrance into the prison doore, or commongaol — would seem to indicate that the court-room wasupon the western side of the second floor, in 1670, at any rate.The term chambers used in the communication is hardlylikely to have referred to private rooms of the magistrates, astavern connection, though possibly very convenient in somecases, might have led to public sca

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