Cape Council of Policy
523
1676-06-19
Minute details
- Entry number
- 523
- Date
- 1676-06-19
- Year
- 1676
English translation
The Council having been convened by the Honourable Governor, His Eminence informed him that it was becoming increasingly apparent daily that many self-interested Company servants were coming to engage in the unauthorized brewing and setting of sugar beers and other deeds, of which several of these free residents were well-suited to the meager profits that accrued from the aforementioned beer, in view of its necessity, and in order to provide these people with some means to support their families. Therefore, most of them, in the interests of the common good, have seen fit to issue a strict edict prohibiting any Company. servants, whoever it might be, shall be allowed to set, brew and sell some beer, as is also understood that none of them, be they minor or major, who were provided with any clothing in their pay, may alienate or sell the same to any, either free residents or the Company's servants, in whatever way or under whatever pretext it might be, and that83 it is to be forfeited to the counterventeurs on the same terms as in the aforementioned. A placard will be devised and publicly announced to the people.84
Furthermore, it is also considered and understood that the merchant and deputy mayor, Hendrick Crudop, who has been considerably hampered by the lack of suitable personnel for a considerable period of time, beyond his own important administrative duties, and who has also performed the fiscal duties up to this date, should be informed of this, and thanked for his demonstrated vigilance and loyal service, and that the person of Gerbrant Mulder, acting as provisional claimant until further notice, should be placed in that office until his release.
For the last time by having the messenger post all kinds of bills for me to get some shy coarse grains, Guinean leewat and the swamp85 &a. to the highest bidders in civil proceedings on the reecq. der's Comps. servants,86 to the greatest benefit of the E. Compage. at public auction to set.
Thus done and passed in the Fort of Good Hope on the day and the year before.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM, Rt. Sets.
Furthermore, it is also considered and understood that the merchant and deputy mayor, Hendrick Crudop, who has been considerably hampered by the lack of suitable personnel for a considerable period of time, beyond his own important administrative duties, and who has also performed the fiscal duties up to this date, should be informed of this, and thanked for his demonstrated vigilance and loyal service, and that the person of Gerbrant Mulder, acting as provisional claimant until further notice, should be placed in that office until his release.
For the last time by having the messenger post all kinds of bills for me to get some shy coarse grains, Guinean leewat and the swamp85 &a. to the highest bidders in civil proceedings on the reecq. der's Comps. servants,86 to the greatest benefit of the E. Compage. at public auction to set.
Thus done and passed in the Fort of Good Hope on the day and the year before.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM, Rt. Sets.
Original Dutch transcription
Den Raat door d’ E. Hr. Gouverneur geconvoceert zijnde, wert door Sijn E. opgemelt, aan deselve voorgehouden hoe dat dagelijckx, hoe langs hoe meer quam te ervaren, datter veele baatsuchtige Compags. dienaren haar komen ongeoorlooft te erneeren met ‘t setten en brouwen van suijckerbieren, en andere schacherijen, daer verscheijde van deese vrije ingesetenen zijn, die d’ sobere winstjes, die op ‘t voors. bier zijn vallende, ten aansien haare benoodigheijt wel requireert, ende om deselve luijden tot sustentatie haarder familie eenige middelen aan d’ hant te geven, Soo hebben ten meesten dienste van ‘t gemeene best goet gevonden, bij een g’emaneert placcaat wel strictelijck te verbieden, dat geene Compags. dienaeren, wie ‘t oock soude mogen wesen, sullen mogen eenige bieren te setten, brouwen ende uijtslijten, gelijckerwijs oock mede is verstaan, van geenige derselver, ‘t sij oock mindere off meerdere, die eenige kledingh op haare soldije reecq. verstreckt werden, deselve te mogen aan eenige, ‘t zij vrije ingesetenen als ‘s Compags. dienaars veralieneeren off verkoopen, op wat wijse, off onder hoedanigen pretext ‘t oock soude mogen wesen, endedat83 op soodanigen peene bij d’ contraventeurs te verbeuren, als bij ‘t voorn. placcaat sal worden beraemt, ende voor den volcke in ‘t openbaar affgekundigt.84
Wijders wert mede g’considereert ende verstaan, den coopman ende secunde persoon Hendrick Crudop, een ruijmen tijt boven sijn eijgen wichtige administratie met andere functien, door gebreck van gedienstige stoffe vrij belemmert geweest zijnde, en oock ‘t officium van fiscaal tot dato deser waargenomen hebbende, daarvan te releveeren, ende voor sijne getoonde vigilantie ende trouwen dienste te bedancken ende den persoon van Gerbrant Mulder, tot nader gelegentheijt als provisioneel eijsscher, in die bedieninge tot opgem. Sijn Es. ontlastinge te statueeren.
Voor ‘t laatst door d’ bode alomme biljetten te doen affigeeren omme eenige verlegen grove grainen, Guinees lijwaat ende moeris85 &a. aan d’ meest biedendedes te civiel gaande op d’ reecq. der ‘s Comps. dienaren,86 ten meesten profijte van d’ E. Compage. bij openbaare venditie om te setten.
Aldus gedaan ende gepasseert in ‘t Fort d’ Goede Hoop ten dage ende jaare voors.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM, Rt. Sets.
Wijders wert mede g’considereert ende verstaan, den coopman ende secunde persoon Hendrick Crudop, een ruijmen tijt boven sijn eijgen wichtige administratie met andere functien, door gebreck van gedienstige stoffe vrij belemmert geweest zijnde, en oock ‘t officium van fiscaal tot dato deser waargenomen hebbende, daarvan te releveeren, ende voor sijne getoonde vigilantie ende trouwen dienste te bedancken ende den persoon van Gerbrant Mulder, tot nader gelegentheijt als provisioneel eijsscher, in die bedieninge tot opgem. Sijn Es. ontlastinge te statueeren.
Voor ‘t laatst door d’ bode alomme biljetten te doen affigeeren omme eenige verlegen grove grainen, Guinees lijwaat ende moeris85 &a. aan d’ meest biedendedes te civiel gaande op d’ reecq. der ‘s Comps. dienaren,86 ten meesten profijte van d’ E. Compage. bij openbaare venditie om te setten.
Aldus gedaan ende gepasseert in ‘t Fort d’ Goede Hoop ten dage ende jaare voors.
[Signed:] J. BAX g. v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM, Rt. Sets.