Cape Council of Policy
229
1659-11-07
Minute details
- Entry number
- 229
- Date
- 1659-11-07
- Year
- 1659
English translation
Yesterday, the freemen, having to the best of their ability, from the Compton estate, had been repatriated of their cattle and milk, namely those which had been robbed and stripped of them by the marauding Hottentoes, in order to take charge of their crops, as they may, in their presence, drive in the corn and plow the stubble again, etc., when absolutely necessary. It has been decided, for their safekeeping, to order the following and to promulgate and display it by placard, namely:
Whereas the 85 freemen, who had been robbed of their plough and milk cattle (some of them all, and some of them part of the Hottentoos), together with others of the 13th Company, had this week been sent back to their place as sureties to the best of their ability, to take care of their building, etc., and since the others suffered most perilously from being robbed of them again, against which no better remedy could be found than to make a fence of poles and trees, like the one the Eastern Company is currently working on, between the guardhouses Turn the Cow and Look Out; It has been decided to order the aforementioned officers, or all those living on the other side of the Liesbeek river, that each of them, as far away from their lands, shall fetch with their own wagons as many poles and trees from the forest as the E. Compe. will have prepared in the forest in order to carve their land with the help of the Compe. to fence it off in the same way,88 also those living on this side will be allowed to block the areas of the rivers through which any animals could be driven, while what is left open outside some man's lands at the E. Compe. Only89 furthermore, for greater protection, will be similarly enclosed with pega peges and planted with bitter almond trees, as the free people will also have to do as soon as the aforementioned fence is finished, and for which purpose, in order to make progress faster,90 they will not be allowed to chop and take wood from all the forests, except Comps. or Leenderts forests; and the poles, wherever they must be in the ground, are to be well burned91 to ensure they last longer, 8 feet long, with two double poles and 6 feet each from the other, just as the E. Compe. is working on, as mentioned above, and that all the first day should be set aside for the last, as necessity demands this at the highest level.92
It has also been deemed necessary to emanate the following from some advocates, etc.
It should be noted that many people are not particularly bothered by the small fine of 10 reales imposed for drawing a knife: but some of them have equally light hands. It has therefore been decided that whoever draws a knife or any other weapon will henceforth forfeit, according to the general article, 6 months' wages, and the freeman 25 reales of 8, even if no one has filled or requested it. And those of the freemen who are unable to pay will be charged and held liable for the fine, for as long as such has been submitted, at 9 guilders per month. Thus it is understood that this is to prevent many misfortunes and to promote the greatest possible peace of mind for the public.93
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1659.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1659.
[Signed:] PITER EVRARD.
[Signed:] GYSBT. VAN CAMPEN, secrets.
Whereas the 85 freemen, who had been robbed of their plough and milk cattle (some of them all, and some of them part of the Hottentoos), together with others of the 13th Company, had this week been sent back to their place as sureties to the best of their ability, to take care of their building, etc., and since the others suffered most perilously from being robbed of them again, against which no better remedy could be found than to make a fence of poles and trees, like the one the Eastern Company is currently working on, between the guardhouses Turn the Cow and Look Out; It has been decided to order the aforementioned officers, or all those living on the other side of the Liesbeek river, that each of them, as far away from their lands, shall fetch with their own wagons as many poles and trees from the forest as the E. Compe. will have prepared in the forest in order to carve their land with the help of the Compe. to fence it off in the same way,88 also those living on this side will be allowed to block the areas of the rivers through which any animals could be driven, while what is left open outside some man's lands at the E. Compe. Only89 furthermore, for greater protection, will be similarly enclosed with pega peges and planted with bitter almond trees, as the free people will also have to do as soon as the aforementioned fence is finished, and for which purpose, in order to make progress faster,90 they will not be allowed to chop and take wood from all the forests, except Comps. or Leenderts forests; and the poles, wherever they must be in the ground, are to be well burned91 to ensure they last longer, 8 feet long, with two double poles and 6 feet each from the other, just as the E. Compe. is working on, as mentioned above, and that all the first day should be set aside for the last, as necessity demands this at the highest level.92
It has also been deemed necessary to emanate the following from some advocates, etc.
It should be noted that many people are not particularly bothered by the small fine of 10 reales imposed for drawing a knife: but some of them have equally light hands. It has therefore been decided that whoever draws a knife or any other weapon will henceforth forfeit, according to the general article, 6 months' wages, and the freeman 25 reales of 8, even if no one has filled or requested it. And those of the freemen who are unable to pay will be charged and held liable for the fine, for as long as such has been submitted, at 9 guilders per month. Thus it is understood that this is to prevent many misfortunes and to promote the greatest possible peace of mind for the public.93
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1659.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1659.
[Signed:] PITER EVRARD.
[Signed:] GYSBT. VAN CAMPEN, secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
Op gisteren de vryeluyden alomme na vermogen uyt Comps. bestiael weder versien hebbende van treck ende melck beesten, namentlijck die daer van door de rovende Hottentoos sijn berooft ende ontbloot geworden, om haren bou mede waer te mogen nemen dewyl se deselve om hun jegenwoordigh mayende coren in te rijden ende de stoppelen weder onder te ploegen &a., op ‘t hooghsten noodigh hebben, Soo is goedtgevonden tot te seeckerder bewaringe van de selve ‘t navolgende te ordonneren ende bij forme van placcaet te promulgeren ende affigeeren, te weeten.
Dewijle de85 vrijeluyden welcke haer ploegh ende melck beesten (sommige altemalen ende andere gedeelte van de Hottentoos waren ontrooft) dese weecke met andere van d’ 13. Compe. weder te borgh na vermogen in de plaets syn versien geworden om haren bou mede waer te nemen &a., Ende nademael de overluyden wel ‘t meeste pericul lyden om van deselve weder berooft te worden, waer tegen geen beeter middel uijt te vinden sij, als met een schutwering van palen ende bomen te maecken gelyck d’ E. Compe. jegenwoordigh is onderhanden hebbende, tusschen de wachthuijsen Keert de Koe ende Kijck Uijt; Soo is goedtgevonden de gemelte overluyden of alle die aen d’ overzyde der reviere Liesbeeck woonente beveelen dat86 elck soo verde hare landeryen leggensoo veele palen ende bomen uijt ‘t bos sullen met eijgen wagens halen als d’ E. Compe. in ‘t bos sal laten gereet maken om hun landt door behulp van Comps. timmere. daermede oock87 soodanich aff te schutten,88 Item oock die aen dees syde woonen de plaetsen van de revieren daer eenige beesten souden cunnen deur gedreven worden, sullende ‘t gene buijten ymants landen open leght bij d’ E. Compe.Alleen89 voorts tot meerder bescherminge, insgelijcx ofte met pega peges affgesloten ende met bitter amandelbomen beplandt worden, gelijck de vryeluyden mede sullen moeten doen soo haest voorsz schutwering sal affgemaeckt wesen, ende waertoe deselveoock om te eerder voortgangh te maken boven dien90 voor niet hout sullen mogen hacken ende halen uijt alle de bossen, uytgesondert Comps. of Leendertsbossen ; ende de palen soo verde die in de grondt moeten staen, wel branden91 om te langer te mogen duijren langh 8 voet, met 2 dubbelde bomen ende 6 voet yder van den anderen, even als d’ E. Compe. onder handen heeft gelijck boven geseyt is, ende dat al den eersten dagh voor den laesten alsoo de nootsaeckelyckheijt sulcx op ‘t hooghste is vereijssende.92
Soo is oock nodigh g’acht dit volgende te emaneren tegen eenige voorvechters &a.
Aengesien gemerckt wort dat sich veele weynich ontsien de geringe boete van 10 realen gestelt op ‘t mes’ trecken: maer sommige daervan al even lichten handt hebben, Soo is goedtgevonden dat die sijn mes of eenigh geweer treckt, voortaen sal verbeuren volgens den generalen articulbrieff 6 maenden gagie, Ende de vryel. 25 realen van 8en al waer ‘t dat niemandt daer mede gevulmeert of gequest hadden, Ende die van de vrijeluyden onvermogen is te betalen, sal aen Comps. wercken gestelt ende gehouden worden, soo lange sulcx sal ingedient hebben, tegen 9 gulden per mt. alsoo verstaen wort sulcx tot voorcomingh van veele ongelucken, ende de meeste gerustigheijt van ‘t gemeen te strecken.93
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1659.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1659.
[Signed:] PITER EVRARD.
[Signed:] GYSBT. VAN CAMPEN, secrets.
Dewijle de85 vrijeluyden welcke haer ploegh ende melck beesten (sommige altemalen ende andere gedeelte van de Hottentoos waren ontrooft) dese weecke met andere van d’ 13. Compe. weder te borgh na vermogen in de plaets syn versien geworden om haren bou mede waer te nemen &a., Ende nademael de overluyden wel ‘t meeste pericul lyden om van deselve weder berooft te worden, waer tegen geen beeter middel uijt te vinden sij, als met een schutwering van palen ende bomen te maecken gelyck d’ E. Compe. jegenwoordigh is onderhanden hebbende, tusschen de wachthuijsen Keert de Koe ende Kijck Uijt; Soo is goedtgevonden de gemelte overluyden of alle die aen d’ overzyde der reviere Liesbeeck woonente beveelen dat86 elck soo verde hare landeryen leggensoo veele palen ende bomen uijt ‘t bos sullen met eijgen wagens halen als d’ E. Compe. in ‘t bos sal laten gereet maken om hun landt door behulp van Comps. timmere. daermede oock87 soodanich aff te schutten,88 Item oock die aen dees syde woonen de plaetsen van de revieren daer eenige beesten souden cunnen deur gedreven worden, sullende ‘t gene buijten ymants landen open leght bij d’ E. Compe.Alleen89 voorts tot meerder bescherminge, insgelijcx ofte met pega peges affgesloten ende met bitter amandelbomen beplandt worden, gelijck de vryeluyden mede sullen moeten doen soo haest voorsz schutwering sal affgemaeckt wesen, ende waertoe deselveoock om te eerder voortgangh te maken boven dien90 voor niet hout sullen mogen hacken ende halen uijt alle de bossen, uytgesondert Comps. of Leendertsbossen ; ende de palen soo verde die in de grondt moeten staen, wel branden91 om te langer te mogen duijren langh 8 voet, met 2 dubbelde bomen ende 6 voet yder van den anderen, even als d’ E. Compe. onder handen heeft gelijck boven geseyt is, ende dat al den eersten dagh voor den laesten alsoo de nootsaeckelyckheijt sulcx op ‘t hooghste is vereijssende.92
Soo is oock nodigh g’acht dit volgende te emaneren tegen eenige voorvechters &a.
Aengesien gemerckt wort dat sich veele weynich ontsien de geringe boete van 10 realen gestelt op ‘t mes’ trecken: maer sommige daervan al even lichten handt hebben, Soo is goedtgevonden dat die sijn mes of eenigh geweer treckt, voortaen sal verbeuren volgens den generalen articulbrieff 6 maenden gagie, Ende de vryel. 25 realen van 8en al waer ‘t dat niemandt daer mede gevulmeert of gequest hadden, Ende die van de vrijeluyden onvermogen is te betalen, sal aen Comps. wercken gestelt ende gehouden worden, soo lange sulcx sal ingedient hebben, tegen 9 gulden per mt. alsoo verstaen wort sulcx tot voorcomingh van veele ongelucken, ende de meeste gerustigheijt van ‘t gemeen te strecken.93
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1659.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1659.
[Signed:] PITER EVRARD.
[Signed:] GYSBT. VAN CAMPEN, secrets.