Cape Council of Policy
115
1657-07-03
Minute details
- Entry number
- 115
- Date
- 1657-07-03
- Year
- 1657
English translation
Today it has been learned and it has become evident that the persons Hans de Bout, Carel Broers, and Jan Claesz van Wesselboeren, wagon drivers, have carelessly neglected or lost and allowed to drown three of Comp's trekking oxen, causing great embarrassment and damage in various matters. It has been understood and approved: in order to make them more careful, and also, as an example to others, to tax them at fair price, 50 guilders each ox, although they are the E. Compe. to be worth at least three times as much in labor, and therefore to threaten them not to part with it after this bargain, but that for each animal lost in the near future, they will have to pay at least one hundred guilders.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, Secrets. 1657.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, Secrets. 1657.
Original Dutch transcription
Heden vernomen ende evident gebleecken sijnde, dat de persoonen Hans de Bout, Carel Broers, ende Jan Claesz van Wesselboeren, wagenvoerders, door achteloosheijt hebben verwaerloost offte verlooren ende laten verdrencken drie van Comps. treckossen tot groote verlegentheyt ende schade in verscheijden saecken, Soo is verstaen ende goetgevonden: omme haer te beter te doen oppassen, ende oock tot exempel van andren voor deselve op reecqe. te laten belasten, 50 gl. ijder os, hoewel se d’ E. Compe. wel drie mael soo veel waerdich sijn in den arbeijt, ende dierhalven haer te doen een dreijgement van na desen soo goetcoop daer niet aff te raken, maer dat voor elck beest, in ‘t aenstaende comende te verliesen, ten minsten sullen te betalen hebben hondert guldens.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, Secrets. 1657.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, Secrets. 1657.