Cape Council of Policy
508
1675-12-31
Minute details
- Entry number
- 508
- Date
- 1675-12-31
- Year
- 1675
English translation
In accordance with the decision taken yesterday, citizen Jacob Rosen was released from the Cape beer tap. It was decided today in Council that the widow Jannetje Ferdinandus and Barent Brinkman would be privileged for a period of one year, provided they pay the tax imposed on them by that date, namely Rxr. 100 each.
And since the citizen and brewer of Cape beer, Hendrick Evertsen Smith, also showed and indicated that, due to the meager harvest, nowhere near enough grains would be obtained this coming year to be brewed, except that upon transferring what he brewed and consumed in the past year, it appeared that little was left over for his efforts, over and above the money he had already spent and the tax still to be paid. Therefore, at his request, it was deemed appropriate to accommodate him in this, and it was resolved that instead of the annual tax of ƒ600, no more than half, namely one hundred Rxr, would be levied from now on. to the E. Compage.
Wouter Mostaar, also present at this meeting, immediately requested that his claim regarding the construction of the stone water gutter be considered. Therefore, in accordance with the previous summary of the order of the Majors contained in their letter of May 4, 1674, and the documents recovered by the Court, the aforementioned gutter, having been inspected and inspected several times by the Governor in person and by commissioners, was finally approved, and it was agreed that the sum of one thousand guilders be paid to him in satisfaction of his claim. Cape valuation, which will subsequently be validated from the Company's cash register.
Furthermore, at the request of one Solomon the Lion of Amsterdam, who had been released as a soldier at ƒ10 per month and had been writing here for quite some time at the Secretariat and the trading post, and had been able to provide satisfactory proofs of capacity, the position of assistant was devolved with a remuneration of ƒ18 per month, provided he remains obligated to serve out his time for this purpose.
Thus resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, on the date and year prescribed.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
And since the citizen and brewer of Cape beer, Hendrick Evertsen Smith, also showed and indicated that, due to the meager harvest, nowhere near enough grains would be obtained this coming year to be brewed, except that upon transferring what he brewed and consumed in the past year, it appeared that little was left over for his efforts, over and above the money he had already spent and the tax still to be paid. Therefore, at his request, it was deemed appropriate to accommodate him in this, and it was resolved that instead of the annual tax of ƒ600, no more than half, namely one hundred Rxr, would be levied from now on. to the E. Compage.
Wouter Mostaar, also present at this meeting, immediately requested that his claim regarding the construction of the stone water gutter be considered. Therefore, in accordance with the previous summary of the order of the Majors contained in their letter of May 4, 1674, and the documents recovered by the Court, the aforementioned gutter, having been inspected and inspected several times by the Governor in person and by commissioners, was finally approved, and it was agreed that the sum of one thousand guilders be paid to him in satisfaction of his claim. Cape valuation, which will subsequently be validated from the Company's cash register.
Furthermore, at the request of one Solomon the Lion of Amsterdam, who had been released as a soldier at ƒ10 per month and had been writing here for quite some time at the Secretariat and the trading post, and had been able to provide satisfactory proofs of capacity, the position of assistant was devolved with a remuneration of ƒ18 per month, provided he remains obligated to serve out his time for this purpose.
Thus resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, on the date and year prescribed.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
Original Dutch transcription
In conformite van ‘t besluijt op gisteren genomen, den borger Jacob Rosen daer ontslagen sijnde van d’ Caapse bier-tap, Soo is van dagh in Raade verstaan, daartoe sullen werden geprivelegeert, d’ weduwe Jannetje Ferdinandus ende Barent Brinkman ende dat voor den tijt van een jaare, mits betaalende den impost daarop voor dato gestelt, namentlijck Rxr. 100 ider.
Ende alsoo den borger ende brouwer van ‘t Caapse bier Hendrick Evertsen Smith, mede vertoont ende aangeweesen heeft, dat mits ‘t schraal gewas op verre nae sooveel graanen dit aanstaande jaar niet en sagh te bekomen, als wel machtigh soude wesen te verbrouwen behalven dat ons bij gemaackte overslagh van ‘t geen in den gepasseerden jaare door hem is gebrouwt en uijt gesleten, gebleecken zij, dat boven sijn uijtgeleijde gelt, ende d’ noch te betaelen impost, voor sijn moeijten, qualijck iets komt over te schieten. Soo is op desselffs versoeck goet gevonden hem daarin te gemoet te komen, ende geresolveert, dat in plaatz van den jaarlijcksen impost van ƒ600 nu voortaan niet meer als d’ helfte namentlijck een hondert Rxr. aan d’ E. Compage. sal hebben op te brengen.
Te deser vergaderingh mede binnen gestaan zijnde, Wouter Mostaart seer instantelijck versoeckende, dat op desselffs pretentie nopende d’ extructie van d’ steene watergoot gelet mochte werden, Soo is naer voorgaande resumptie van d’ ordre van d’ Heeren Majores vervath bij derselver aanschrijvens van den 4en Maij 1674, ende des Reqts. gerecouvreede documenten, mitsgrs. de voors. goot, soo door den Gouverneur in persoon, als bij gecommitteerdens, tot distincte maalen opgenomen ende gevisiteert sijnde, eijndelijck goet gevonden, ende verstaan, hem tot voldoeninge van sijn pretentie toe te leggen d’ somma van een duijsent gl. Caapse valuatie, die hem nae desen uijt ‘s Compags. cassa sal valideeren.
Wijders is op ‘t versoeck van eenen Salemon d’ Leeuw van Amsterdam, uijtgekomen in qualite van soldaet a ƒ10 ter maant, ende geruijmen tijt alhier ter Secretarije ende op ‘t negotiecomptoir aan d’ pen gebruijckt, daarbij genougsaame preuven van capaciteijt is komen te geven, gedefereert d’ qualiteijt van adsistent met een belooningh van ƒ18 ter maant, mits gehouden blijvende daarvoor sijn tijt uijt te dienen.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Fort d’ Goede Hoop, ten dage en jaare voorschreven.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
Ende alsoo den borger ende brouwer van ‘t Caapse bier Hendrick Evertsen Smith, mede vertoont ende aangeweesen heeft, dat mits ‘t schraal gewas op verre nae sooveel graanen dit aanstaande jaar niet en sagh te bekomen, als wel machtigh soude wesen te verbrouwen behalven dat ons bij gemaackte overslagh van ‘t geen in den gepasseerden jaare door hem is gebrouwt en uijt gesleten, gebleecken zij, dat boven sijn uijtgeleijde gelt, ende d’ noch te betaelen impost, voor sijn moeijten, qualijck iets komt over te schieten. Soo is op desselffs versoeck goet gevonden hem daarin te gemoet te komen, ende geresolveert, dat in plaatz van den jaarlijcksen impost van ƒ600 nu voortaan niet meer als d’ helfte namentlijck een hondert Rxr. aan d’ E. Compage. sal hebben op te brengen.
Te deser vergaderingh mede binnen gestaan zijnde, Wouter Mostaart seer instantelijck versoeckende, dat op desselffs pretentie nopende d’ extructie van d’ steene watergoot gelet mochte werden, Soo is naer voorgaande resumptie van d’ ordre van d’ Heeren Majores vervath bij derselver aanschrijvens van den 4en Maij 1674, ende des Reqts. gerecouvreede documenten, mitsgrs. de voors. goot, soo door den Gouverneur in persoon, als bij gecommitteerdens, tot distincte maalen opgenomen ende gevisiteert sijnde, eijndelijck goet gevonden, ende verstaan, hem tot voldoeninge van sijn pretentie toe te leggen d’ somma van een duijsent gl. Caapse valuatie, die hem nae desen uijt ‘s Compags. cassa sal valideeren.
Wijders is op ‘t versoeck van eenen Salemon d’ Leeuw van Amsterdam, uijtgekomen in qualite van soldaet a ƒ10 ter maant, ende geruijmen tijt alhier ter Secretarije ende op ‘t negotiecomptoir aan d’ pen gebruijckt, daarbij genougsaame preuven van capaciteijt is komen te geven, gedefereert d’ qualiteijt van adsistent met een belooningh van ƒ18 ter maant, mits gehouden blijvende daarvoor sijn tijt uijt te dienen.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Fort d’ Goede Hoop, ten dage en jaare voorschreven.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.