Cape Council of Policy
518
1676-05-05
Minute details
- Entry number
- 518
- Date
- 1676-05-05
- Year
- 1676
English translation
After the ordinary prayer, the Honourable Governor proposed and summarized in Council whether the hunt as proposed (having been projected by resolution of the Honourable Commissioner Nicolaes Verburgh to the slave trade to Madagascar) should not have been allowed to undertake the journey with the first, so that (considering the ordinary time and the direct monsoon had now arrived) they did not wish to delay it any longer than against the 15th of this month, in order to allow the said hunt to continue its journey to that end, provided that the chiefs provide such cash, clothing, etc. for that trade and a memorandum for its direction as they found, mostly in the service of the Honourable Company. to belong.68
It is further understood that the officer Sparrendam, having been instructed by resolution of the aforementioned Commissioner on March 11th, to obtain lime for the construction of the new fortification of Mauritius, by excusing the inadequacy found by the inspectors, and that the officer, the stronger and more solid one, was deemed ample enough to take whatever quantity of lime might be in stock there, to be sent to its place, and that Sparrendam should be sent to Batavia immediately (to obtain its proper repair).
Thus resolved at the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM. Rt. Secrets.
It is further understood that the officer Sparrendam, having been instructed by resolution of the aforementioned Commissioner on March 11th, to obtain lime for the construction of the new fortification of Mauritius, by excusing the inadequacy found by the inspectors, and that the officer, the stronger and more solid one, was deemed ample enough to take whatever quantity of lime might be in stock there, to be sent to its place, and that Sparrendam should be sent to Batavia immediately (to obtain its proper repair).
Thus resolved at the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM. Rt. Secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
Na ‘t ordinarij gebet is door d’ E. Hr. Gouverneur voorgehouden, en geresumeert in Rade of men ‘t jacht het Voorhoudt (sijnde bij resolutie van de Edle. Hr. Commissaris Nicolaes Verburgh geprojecteert tot den slavenhandel na Madagascar ) niet behoorde met den eersten te laten die reijse onderneemen, soo hebben (gemerct de ordinarie tijt en rechte mousson nu gekomen was) ‘t selve niet langer willen doen vertragen als tegens den 15 deser om opgemelte jacht tot dien eijnde voort te laten reijs vorderen, mits d’ opperhooffden mede te geven soodanige contanten, kleden &a. tot dien handel en memorie tot naerichtinge als bevinden ten meesten dienste der E. Compa. te behooren.68
Wijders is verstaan de fluijt Sparrendam , sijnde in dato 11 maart bij resolutie van den heer Commissaris voornt., aangeleijt om kalcq tot den opbouw van de nieuwe fortificatie van Mauritius te haelen, door de onbequaemheijt, die de visitateurs daaraan bevonden hebben, van ‘t selve te excuseeren, en de hoecker de Bode die stercker, en hechter oock ruijm genoech geoordeelt wert om die quantiteijt kalcq, die daar in voorraet mochte wesen, in te neemen, in desselffs plaatse te laten gaan, en Sparrendam per eersten (om sijne behoorlijcke reparatie te erlangen) na Batavia voort te senden.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoop ten dage en jaare voors.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM. Rt. Secrets.
Wijders is verstaan de fluijt Sparrendam , sijnde in dato 11 maart bij resolutie van den heer Commissaris voornt., aangeleijt om kalcq tot den opbouw van de nieuwe fortificatie van Mauritius te haelen, door de onbequaemheijt, die de visitateurs daaraan bevonden hebben, van ‘t selve te excuseeren, en de hoecker de Bode die stercker, en hechter oock ruijm genoech geoordeelt wert om die quantiteijt kalcq, die daar in voorraet mochte wesen, in te neemen, in desselffs plaatse te laten gaan, en Sparrendam per eersten (om sijne behoorlijcke reparatie te erlangen) na Batavia voort te senden.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoop ten dage en jaare voors.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM. Rt. Secrets.