Cape Council of Policy
466
1672-06-01
Minute details
- Entry number
- 466
- Date
- 1672-06-01
- Year
- 1672
English translation
Instructions for the outposts of the Ruitterstal, Kijckuijt, Keer de Koe, and others, according to which they must regulate.35
1.
The corporal of the Ruitterstal will inspect the roundabouts twice a week and demand an account of what has passed there, as well as of the things that were shot. The riders will bring any shots or prisoners to the corporal, who will then have them brought to the fort here, at least twice a week, depending on their use.
2.
No one, whether corporals, horsemen, or anyone else, shall be able to sell, give away, or bring anything elsewhere than in the house of the chief here, on penalty of one month's wages, which the fiscal will also carefully consider, and will be punished depending on the case, who allows any wagons or vessels to pass by, day or night, without permission.
3.
Anyone who is absent from their usual posts at night without permission, whether at the fort, inns, or other private houses, shall be punished in accordance with the article.
4.
The corporal will, as a rule, report to the fort once every week on what has happened, but in the event of an exceptional incident, he will not be bound by a time limit, as the other corporals are also required to do, but this may happen both day and night, on penalty of his weekly allowance.
5.
Neither the corporal nor any of the riders will be able to take their horses out for a ride, tie them up here or there, and then go to the inn, or stay at feasts for whole or half days or nights, where the horses are often deprived of their food. However, when reports are made, or rations are collected, and they are prevented for good reason, they will be able to bring their horses to the Comp's stable to be fed there, but will always make sure to be back at their posts when the sun shines; on penalty of one month's wages as above.
In the Fort of Good Hope, this 1st of June, 39th, 1672.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
1.
The corporal of the Ruitterstal will inspect the roundabouts twice a week and demand an account of what has passed there, as well as of the things that were shot. The riders will bring any shots or prisoners to the corporal, who will then have them brought to the fort here, at least twice a week, depending on their use.
2.
No one, whether corporals, horsemen, or anyone else, shall be able to sell, give away, or bring anything elsewhere than in the house of the chief here, on penalty of one month's wages, which the fiscal will also carefully consider, and will be punished depending on the case, who allows any wagons or vessels to pass by, day or night, without permission.
3.
Anyone who is absent from their usual posts at night without permission, whether at the fort, inns, or other private houses, shall be punished in accordance with the article.
4.
The corporal will, as a rule, report to the fort once every week on what has happened, but in the event of an exceptional incident, he will not be bound by a time limit, as the other corporals are also required to do, but this may happen both day and night, on penalty of his weekly allowance.
5.
Neither the corporal nor any of the riders will be able to take their horses out for a ride, tie them up here or there, and then go to the inn, or stay at feasts for whole or half days or nights, where the horses are often deprived of their food. However, when reports are made, or rations are collected, and they are prevented for good reason, they will be able to bring their horses to the Comp's stable to be fed there, but will always make sure to be back at their posts when the sun shines; on penalty of one month's wages as above.
In the Fort of Good Hope, this 1st of June, 39th, 1672.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
Original Dutch transcription
Instructie voor de buijtenposten d’ Ruijtterstal , Kijckuijt , Keer de Koe , en andere waer na haer hebben te reguleren.35
1.
Den corporael van de Ruijtterstal sal tweemael ‘s weex die ronduijtten &a. visiteren, en reekenschap eijsschen van ‘t gene dat daer gepasseert is, insgelijcx van ‘t wilt datter geschoten wert, en sullen die ruijtters het geschotene of gevangene wilt voor den corporael brengen, die dat dan na ‘t fort alhier sal laten brengen, ten minsten tweemael ‘s weecx na out gebruijck.
2.
Niemant, so corporael, ruijters, of wie ‘t sou mogen wesen, en sal vermogen eenich wilt te vercoopen, verschencken, of elders brengen, als in ‘t huijs van ‘t opperhooft alhier opde36 verbeurte van een maent gagie, pro fisco, waer op den fiscael oock naeu regard37 nemen sal, en sullen oock naer gelegentheijt van saecken gestraft werden, die gene die ijmant door de vingerensien endesonder38 verlof eenige wagens, of vaertuijgen laten passeeren, bij dage off bij nacht.
3.
Wie snachs sonder verlof van sijne bescheijden posten absenteert, ‘t sij aen ‘t fort, herbergen, of andere vrijluijden huijsen, sal conform den artijckelbrief gestraft werden.
4.
Den corporael sal, ordinarij alle weecken eens aen ‘t fort rapport van ‘t gepasseerde comen doen, doch bij extraordinarij voorval, aen geen tijt gebonden wesen, gelijck die van d’ andre ronduijten mede gehouden sijn te doen, yets nootsaeckelijk voorvallende so wel bij dage als bij nacht, op verbeurte van haer weeckelijck rantsoen.
5.
Den corporael, noch geen der ruijteren, sullen vermogen om haer playsier uijt te ryden, en haere paerden hier of daer vast te binden, en dan in de herberg te gaen, of op gastmalen heele of halve dagen of nagten te blijven sitten, waer door veel tijts de paerden haer voeder ontrocken wert, maer wanneer rapport comen doen, of rantsoen halen, en om goede redenen belet werden, sullen vermogen haere paerden op ‘s Comps. stal te brengen om aldaer gevoedert te werden, doch sullen bij sonneschijn altoos maecken weder op haere posten te wesen; op verbeurte van een maent gagie als boven.
In ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope desen 1[ae]sten39 Junij 1672.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
1.
Den corporael van de Ruijtterstal sal tweemael ‘s weex die ronduijtten &a. visiteren, en reekenschap eijsschen van ‘t gene dat daer gepasseert is, insgelijcx van ‘t wilt datter geschoten wert, en sullen die ruijtters het geschotene of gevangene wilt voor den corporael brengen, die dat dan na ‘t fort alhier sal laten brengen, ten minsten tweemael ‘s weecx na out gebruijck.
2.
Niemant, so corporael, ruijters, of wie ‘t sou mogen wesen, en sal vermogen eenich wilt te vercoopen, verschencken, of elders brengen, als in ‘t huijs van ‘t opperhooft alhier opde36 verbeurte van een maent gagie, pro fisco, waer op den fiscael oock naeu regard37 nemen sal, en sullen oock naer gelegentheijt van saecken gestraft werden, die gene die ijmant door de vingerensien endesonder38 verlof eenige wagens, of vaertuijgen laten passeeren, bij dage off bij nacht.
3.
Wie snachs sonder verlof van sijne bescheijden posten absenteert, ‘t sij aen ‘t fort, herbergen, of andere vrijluijden huijsen, sal conform den artijckelbrief gestraft werden.
4.
Den corporael sal, ordinarij alle weecken eens aen ‘t fort rapport van ‘t gepasseerde comen doen, doch bij extraordinarij voorval, aen geen tijt gebonden wesen, gelijck die van d’ andre ronduijten mede gehouden sijn te doen, yets nootsaeckelijk voorvallende so wel bij dage als bij nacht, op verbeurte van haer weeckelijck rantsoen.
5.
Den corporael, noch geen der ruijteren, sullen vermogen om haer playsier uijt te ryden, en haere paerden hier of daer vast te binden, en dan in de herberg te gaen, of op gastmalen heele of halve dagen of nagten te blijven sitten, waer door veel tijts de paerden haer voeder ontrocken wert, maer wanneer rapport comen doen, of rantsoen halen, en om goede redenen belet werden, sullen vermogen haere paerden op ‘s Comps. stal te brengen om aldaer gevoedert te werden, doch sullen bij sonneschijn altoos maecken weder op haere posten te wesen; op verbeurte van een maent gagie als boven.
In ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope desen 1[ae]sten39 Junij 1672.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.