It says:
"DECREE
on the
proclamation of Police martial law in
the Province of Northern Holland.
In accordance with §§ 62 ff. of the Ordnungsschutzverordnung 1943 [Decree for the Protection of Order 1943], I declare
POLICE MARTIAL LAW
for the territory of the Province of Northern Holland effective immediately.
I combine this with the order for everyone to refrain from all activities capable of disturbing or endangering public order and the security of public life and to adher to my special directives that I declare while expressly pointing out the severity of Police martial law.
Those who counteract this order are subject to sentencing by Police courts martial.
The Higher SS- and Police Leader undertakes all measures that he sees fit to maintain or restore public order or the security of public life.
The Higher SS- and Police Leader may deviate from applicable law in order to carry out his mission.
As my special representative according to § 65 of the Ordnungsschutzverordnung 1943, I appoint the representative for the Province of Northern Holland and the City of Amsterdam, Dr. Schroeder, as his deputy, the State Judge Schwebel.
The Hague, 30th April 1943.
The Reichs Commissioner
for the occupied Netherlandic Territories:
SEYSS-INQUART.
SPECIAL DIRECTIVE.
In accordance with § 62, section 3, of the Ordnungsschutzverordnung 1943 and expressly pointing out the severity of Police martial law, I order for the Province of Northern Holland:
1.) Those who participate in public riotous assemblies of any kind;
2.) those who refuse work, even if only by passive conduct,
who strike or
who lock out the work force;
3.) who carry or own firearms, batons or stabbing weapons;
4.) who manufacture, spread or own leaflets that are suitable to create a disturbance of public order;
5.) who put up resistance to public force,
become subject to sentencing by a court martial and thus, in accordance with § 66 of the Ordnungsschutzverordnung 1943, are punished by death as a matter of principle.
Attempt, instigation and abetment are punishable in the same way as the fulfilled act.
The Hague, 30th April 1943.
The Reichs Commissioner
for the occupied Netherlandic Territories:
SEYSS-INQUART."
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