Cape Council of Policy
437
1671-01-02
Minute details
- Entry number
- 437
- Date
- 1671-01-02
- Year
- 1671
English translation
Was purchased by the merchant and second person of this residence Sr. Cornelis de Cretser presented in Council, how that the same was present in the recording of the warehouses and in principle of which he, de Cretser, has observed since the period of approximately 5 1/2 months, that the dispenser Anthoni d' Raaff2 had been unable to perform his function due to indisposition, had taken on him, in which various goods, and especially black sugar, wheat, rice, wax, and hard bread, came to be deficient in quantity, and this was counterposed against the supplies made successively, to differ noticeably from the balance: And observed as such were in principle the sugar by the exhaustive power of the calibre is reduced, and the grains, so by the destruction of the calender as during the measuring out and other intervals are no less subject to leakage: Therefore, the aforementioned Sr. de Cretser, in the name and on behalf of the aforementioned dispenser Raaff den Raat, gives serious consideration to the fact that in view of this, this difference should not be met and, according to the custom of India, the shortfall of up to 5 per cento annually (however not counting sugar, since it is subject to more leakage than other goods) should be deflated. And after this proposition had been thoroughly considered and debated in Council, it was resolved and established from good consideration that the aforementioned De Raeff, the deductible on his deficient grains against 5 and the sugar against 6, as well as the heart bread, to know of a quantity of 20,285 lb. up to 2 percent in the year well done and this pro rata of the period of the 9 months, as long as the administration of the finances has remained under him, will validate this rebate by account, as was also granted to him, on a quantity of 1072 lb. Since the time of his candle-making dispensation, 114 lbs. of superfluous and dirty wax have been consumed here, of which some still remain at the warehouse, to be deducted from the profit and loss account; however, this will only be deducted from the aforementioned profit and loss account upon provision and approval by the Commissioner, who is the first to be expected here.
And it is noted that the tax inspector, Sr. Granaat, on April 12th of last year (at which time he resigned from his dispensation) paid to the aforementioned Sr. de Raaff, in accordance with their mutual transport, the leggers arrack being ordinary, had calculated 488 m.4 for the aforementioned arrack in 1669 by Her Honor. from Batavia sent thither for this residence, measured to him as a mixture and also booked accordingly, so that he could have sufficed with Garnet, or otherwise pretended to be leaky and insufficient, against which again taken into consideration that Her Honor. Our Lords. The principals, in their most recently issued order, have decreed that all administrators, for a register deemed to be ordinary, need not write in or out more than 360 cans or 450 munich, provided that no leakage or underpayment would then occur. It is also understood that if the excess exceeds the aforementioned 450 m on the register, instead of the aforementioned Sr. de Raaff subsequently claiming leakage and underpayment and approving it accordingly, as before, the profit and loss will be written off.
Consequently, the aforementioned Sr. The Commissioner, on his proposal, agrees that he will be required to pay an annual deduction of 5 percent for the distribution of tobacco, which has been successively distributed in small batches and is exceptionally subject to drought. However, all of this, as stated, is subject to further order and expectation from Mr. Commissioner, in order to serve as a regulation accordingly.
Thus done and arrested in the Fortress of Good Hope on the aforementioned date and year.
[Signed:] PR. HACKIUS, 1671.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] J. COON.
And it is noted that the tax inspector, Sr. Granaat, on April 12th of last year (at which time he resigned from his dispensation) paid to the aforementioned Sr. de Raaff, in accordance with their mutual transport, the leggers arrack being ordinary, had calculated 488 m.4 for the aforementioned arrack in 1669 by Her Honor. from Batavia sent thither for this residence, measured to him as a mixture and also booked accordingly, so that he could have sufficed with Garnet, or otherwise pretended to be leaky and insufficient, against which again taken into consideration that Her Honor. Our Lords. The principals, in their most recently issued order, have decreed that all administrators, for a register deemed to be ordinary, need not write in or out more than 360 cans or 450 munich, provided that no leakage or underpayment would then occur. It is also understood that if the excess exceeds the aforementioned 450 m on the register, instead of the aforementioned Sr. de Raaff subsequently claiming leakage and underpayment and approving it accordingly, as before, the profit and loss will be written off.
Consequently, the aforementioned Sr. The Commissioner, on his proposal, agrees that he will be required to pay an annual deduction of 5 percent for the distribution of tobacco, which has been successively distributed in small batches and is exceptionally subject to drought. However, all of this, as stated, is subject to further order and expectation from Mr. Commissioner, in order to serve as a regulation accordingly.
Thus done and arrested in the Fortress of Good Hope on the aforementioned date and year.
[Signed:] PR. HACKIUS, 1671.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] J. COON.
Original Dutch transcription
Wert door den coopman ende tweede persoon deser residentie Sr. Cornelis de Cretser in Raade voorgedraegen, hoe dat denselven tegenwoordig in ‘t opnemen der packhuijsen ende principaelijck der gener welckers opsigt hij, de Cretzer, tzedert den tijt van omtrent 5 1/2 maent, dat den dispençier Anthoni d’ Raaff2 door indispositie, sijner functie onmachtig is geweest, op hem hadde genomen, heeft bevonden, daerbij verscheijde waeren ende bijsonderlijck swarte zuijcker, taruw, rijst, wax, ende hart broot, in quantiteijt quaemen te deficieren, ende sulx den ontfangh tegens de verstreckingen successivelijck daerop gedaen, gecontraponeert wesende, merckelijck aan de balance te verschillen: Ende aengesien alsulcke waeren principaelijck d’ suijcker door ‘t uijt tiefferenmachtigh3 aan ‘t calibre vermindert, en d’ graenen, so door de vernieling der calander als in ‘t uijtmeten comen te verstuijven en andere intervallen van leckagie geen minder defect onderworpen zijn: Soo geeft voorn. Sr. de Cretser uijt den naem en van wegen voors. dispençier Raaff den Raat in serieus bedencken, off ten reguarde van dien, dit verschil niet en behoorde tegemoet gecomen ende volgens d’ usantie van India daervan d’ ondermaet tot 5 per cento jaerlijx (dog den zuijcker ongerekent mitsdien meerder leckagie als andere goederen subject is) gedefalceert te werden. Ende nae dat dese propositie in Raede rijpelijck overwogen ende gedebatteert was, is uijt goede consideratien geresolveert ende vast gestelt, dat genoemde de Raeff d’ ondermaet op zijne deficierende graenen tegens 5 ende d’ zuijcker a 6 mitsgaeders ‘t hart broot, te weten van een quantiteijt van 20,285 lb. tot 2 per cento in ‘t jaer goetgedaen ende sulx pro rato van den tijt der 9 maenden, so lange ‘t bewint van despencierschap onder hem heeft geresorteert, dese refactie bij rekeningh valideren zall, gelijck hem ook toegestaen wert, op een quantiteijt van 1072 lb. wax zedert den tijt zijner dispens tot ‘et maeken van kaerssen alhier geconsumeert 114 lb. onsuijver ende vuijl wax, ‘t welck daervan alsnog bij d’ packhuijsen resteert, op reecqe. van winst en verlies goet te doen; doch zal desen maer bij provisie ende op approbatie van den Hr. Commissaris, die met den eersten alhier te verwachten staet, op gemelde reecqe. van winst ende verlies afgeschreven werden.
Ende gemerckt den fiscael Sr. Granaat op den 12en April jonstleden (te welker tijt hij van sijn bewint van dispençierschap desisteerde) aan voorn. Sr. de Raaff conform hun onderling gemaekt transport d’ leggers arack ordinair wan zijnde, tegens 488 m.4 heeft aengerekent, ter oirsaeke voors. arracq ao. 1669 door Haer Edle. van Batavia voor dese residentie herwaerts gesonden hem tot mengels aengemeten ende also oock gevolghlijck geboeckt waeren, sulx hij Granaat sustineerde daermede te cunnen volstaen, ofte andersints leckagie ende ondermaet soude te pretenderen hebben, waertegens wederom in consideratie genomen, dat Haer Edle. onse Hren. Principaelen bij haer jongst uijtgegevene ordres hebben g’arresteert, dat alle administrateurs voor een legger ordinarij wan zijnde, niet meer behoeven als 360 cannen off 450 mengelen in en aff te schrijven, mits haer als dan geen leckagie ofte ordinarie ondermaet zoude competeren, So is mede verstaen dat als nu ‘t meerder bedraegen van voors. 450 m. op d’ legger, in plaats dat anders door meergemelden Sr. de Raaff naemaels weder leckagie ende ondermaet soude gevordert ende consequentelijck werden g’approbeert, als vooren op reecqe. van winst ende verlies zall affgeschreven werden.
Gevolghlijck is oock aen meergemelden Sr. de Cretser op zijn gedaene voorstel g’accordeert, dat hij op de verstreckinge van den tabacq, dewelcke succesivelijck met cleijne parthijen geschieden ende boven dien extraordinarie in drooghte onderworpen is, jaerlijx 5 per cento voor ondermaet gerekent, sal te gauderen hebben, dogh alles, als gesegt, tot naerder ordre ende verwacht werdende Hr. Commissaris, omme bij gevolgh tot een reglement te dienen.
Aldus gedaan en g’arresteert in de Fortresse de Goede Hope ten dage en jare voors.
[Signed:] PR. HACKIUS, 1671.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] J. COON.
Ende gemerckt den fiscael Sr. Granaat op den 12en April jonstleden (te welker tijt hij van sijn bewint van dispençierschap desisteerde) aan voorn. Sr. de Raaff conform hun onderling gemaekt transport d’ leggers arack ordinair wan zijnde, tegens 488 m.4 heeft aengerekent, ter oirsaeke voors. arracq ao. 1669 door Haer Edle. van Batavia voor dese residentie herwaerts gesonden hem tot mengels aengemeten ende also oock gevolghlijck geboeckt waeren, sulx hij Granaat sustineerde daermede te cunnen volstaen, ofte andersints leckagie ende ondermaet soude te pretenderen hebben, waertegens wederom in consideratie genomen, dat Haer Edle. onse Hren. Principaelen bij haer jongst uijtgegevene ordres hebben g’arresteert, dat alle administrateurs voor een legger ordinarij wan zijnde, niet meer behoeven als 360 cannen off 450 mengelen in en aff te schrijven, mits haer als dan geen leckagie ofte ordinarie ondermaet zoude competeren, So is mede verstaen dat als nu ‘t meerder bedraegen van voors. 450 m. op d’ legger, in plaats dat anders door meergemelden Sr. de Raaff naemaels weder leckagie ende ondermaet soude gevordert ende consequentelijck werden g’approbeert, als vooren op reecqe. van winst ende verlies zall affgeschreven werden.
Gevolghlijck is oock aen meergemelden Sr. de Cretser op zijn gedaene voorstel g’accordeert, dat hij op de verstreckinge van den tabacq, dewelcke succesivelijck met cleijne parthijen geschieden ende boven dien extraordinarie in drooghte onderworpen is, jaerlijx 5 per cento voor ondermaet gerekent, sal te gauderen hebben, dogh alles, als gesegt, tot naerder ordre ende verwacht werdende Hr. Commissaris, omme bij gevolgh tot een reglement te dienen.
Aldus gedaan en g’arresteert in de Fortresse de Goede Hope ten dage en jare voors.
[Signed:] PR. HACKIUS, 1671.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] J. COON.