Cape Council of Policy
629
1679-06-26
Minute details
- Entry number
- 629
- Date
- 1679-06-26
- Year
- 1679
English translation
At the Comp's warehouse were found several barrels of metal, some of which were starting to arrive freely and others had already become sweet. Consequently, the privileged tappers did not want a current price, and this would only remain to the detriment and disadvantage of the E. Compa. if no other solution was sought. So, after due deliberation, it was decided that it was good, since the longer the storage, the better, but the more likely it is to become, the more sweet all such barrels that will be deemed sweet and the longer storage not possible to tolerate, will be sold by public auction to the highest bidder; it is also understood that from the aforementioned. Insights also indicate that a few incoming and contaminated substances and peddlers, located at the Company's warehouse and shop, will be dealt with accordingly; all are included by resolution dated 16 February of this year. Since no purchasers have yet been able to execute the previous bill, it is better that the E. Company approves of this than that it becomes worthless by delaying the proceedings.
Considering that, in December 1677, some young Madagascan slaves were given to some of these citizens to raise, provided that after a year's delay, the E. Company... to pay to the E. Company, piece by piece, 25 Rxrs. for any who might have died in the meantime, and to pay to the E. Company, 12 1/2 Rxrs. for any who might have died in the meantime; also add that in the month of January of this year the drawing was held between them and the E. Company95 and the said citizens were allocated a number of ...96 pieces with the condition to pay them to the E. Company. to be paid in the first place, without however having paid any of it to date, despite the fact that the said money has been demanded several times by the bailiff, without any apparent reason that in some time or ever the E.Compa. the compensation will be received. So, after due deliberation, it has been agreed97 that the aforementioned corporals, without further delay, of all those who are anticipated to be unable to pay the same in short order, will demand the following month that they be repaid to the E.Compa, and that they be kept there so that those who have died can come and pay them as soon as possible. Especially since most of these people, having had the opportunity to do so, deliberately forgot about the payment and tried to let everything go to the old notch, without acknowledging this favorable provision or making much of an effort to make the payment.
Likewise, also considering that some sloppy and greedy farmers remain in default of paying all or half of the wages of the servants who have been granted to them in loan by the E.Compa. to the Comp. treasury for the past half year in the servants’ favour, under the impertinent pretence of being incapable of being able to raise the same, whereas nevertheless the said servants have either had or continue to be in their service this year, as a result of which the E.Compa. (who agrees to act as guarantor for the payment of that amount) completely outside of all reasons that may be due to the debt, this is understood to mean all such spending guarantors and those who are not able to pay, to reinstate the borrowed servants, as well as to have the payment of what has been earned from them, When weighing the execution, they may decide in whatever way it might be, omme d'E.Compa. to avoid such absurd damage and to help their servants.
In 't Casteel de Goede Hoop date from supra.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] I present A. DE MAN, Secretary.
Considering that, in December 1677, some young Madagascan slaves were given to some of these citizens to raise, provided that after a year's delay, the E. Company... to pay to the E. Company, piece by piece, 25 Rxrs. for any who might have died in the meantime, and to pay to the E. Company, 12 1/2 Rxrs. for any who might have died in the meantime; also add that in the month of January of this year the drawing was held between them and the E. Company95 and the said citizens were allocated a number of ...96 pieces with the condition to pay them to the E. Company. to be paid in the first place, without however having paid any of it to date, despite the fact that the said money has been demanded several times by the bailiff, without any apparent reason that in some time or ever the E.Compa. the compensation will be received. So, after due deliberation, it has been agreed97 that the aforementioned corporals, without further delay, of all those who are anticipated to be unable to pay the same in short order, will demand the following month that they be repaid to the E.Compa, and that they be kept there so that those who have died can come and pay them as soon as possible. Especially since most of these people, having had the opportunity to do so, deliberately forgot about the payment and tried to let everything go to the old notch, without acknowledging this favorable provision or making much of an effort to make the payment.
Likewise, also considering that some sloppy and greedy farmers remain in default of paying all or half of the wages of the servants who have been granted to them in loan by the E.Compa. to the Comp. treasury for the past half year in the servants’ favour, under the impertinent pretence of being incapable of being able to raise the same, whereas nevertheless the said servants have either had or continue to be in their service this year, as a result of which the E.Compa. (who agrees to act as guarantor for the payment of that amount) completely outside of all reasons that may be due to the debt, this is understood to mean all such spending guarantors and those who are not able to pay, to reinstate the borrowed servants, as well as to have the payment of what has been earned from them, When weighing the execution, they may decide in whatever way it might be, omme d'E.Compa. to avoid such absurd damage and to help their servants.
In 't Casteel de Goede Hoop date from supra.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] I present A. DE MAN, Secretary.
Original Dutch transcription
Aangesien bij ‘s Comps magasijn werden bevonden enige vaten mom, waar van sommige vrij beginnen aan te comen en andere al suijr sijn geworden, gevolglijck bij d’ geprivilegeerde tappers a prijs courant niet begeert, en sulcx d’ E.Compa. maar tot schade en nadeel aan de handt soude blijven, ingevalle daar mede geen andere uijtweeg wierde gesocht, Soo is naer genomen deliberatie goet gevonden, vermits bij langer leggen niet beter, maar meer en meer te verslimmeren staan, alle sodanige mom die g’oordeelt sal werden suijr te wesen en ‘t langer leggen niet te connen veelen, bij openbare vendutie aan d’ meestbiedende te vercoopen; sijnde insgelijcx verstaen dat uijt voors. insichten mede sodanich gehandelt sal werden met enige weijnige aangecomen en g’infecteerde stoffen en cramerijen, bij ‘s Comps. packhuijs en d’ winckel berustende; invoegen all bij resolutie onder dato pmo. Februarij deses jaars reedts is g’arresteert en vermits haer daer toe naer voorgaande affictie van biljetten geen coopers op deden tot noch toe niet connen g’executeert werden, als noch beter sijnde dat d’ E.Compa. ijets daarvoor gaudeert dan dat ‘t selve door langer leggen niets waerdigs comt te worden.
Geconsidereert sijnde dat aan enige deser borgers in d’ maant December des jaars 1677 enige jonge Madagascarse slaven en slavinnen sijn gegeven om d’ selve op te voeden, mits na expiratie van een jaer met d’ E. Compa. om d’ geen die als dan in ‘t leven soude wesen, te boten ende soodanige die haer alsdan te beurt souden vallen aan d’ E. Compa. ‘t stuck voor stuck tot 25 Rxrs te betaelen, en d’ geen die haer middelerwijle mochte wesen afgestorven mede tot 12 1/2 Rxrs. aen d’ E.Compa. te voldoen; invoegen ooc daar op in d’ maant Januarij deses jaars de lootinge tusschen haer en d’ E.Compa. is geschiet95 en d’ gemelte borgers een getal van …96 stucks te beurt gevallen met die conditie om deselve aan d’ E.Compa. ten eersten te betaelen, sonder dat echter tot dato ‘t meeste gedeelte derselver ijets daervan hebben betaelt, onaengesien d’ gemelte penningen diverse maelen door d’ gerechtsbode sijn opg’eijscht, sonder apparentie dat in geruijmen tijdt off wel oijt d’ E.Compa. d’ vergoedinge sal becomen, Soo is naer genomen deliberatie goet gevonden97 d’ gemelte lijffeijgene[n] sonder langer dilaij van alle sodanige die men voorsiet niet machtich te wesen om d’ selve in ‘t corte te connen voldoen, d’aanstaande maant op t’ eijschen om aan d’ E.Compa weder gerestitueert te werden, en haer daer heen te houden dat d’ geen die haer sijn afgestorven soo haast als mogelijck mede comen betaelen, te meer d’ meeste van dit volckje daer toe wel gelegentheijt hebbende gehadt, d’ voldoeninge voorbedachtelijck vergeeten en alles op den ouden kerf-stock maer trachten te laeten heen loopen, sonder dese favorabile verstreckinge t’ erkennen off haer om de betalinge veel te bemoeijen.
Insgelijcx mede geconsidereert sijnde dat enige sloffe en quistige landtbouwers in gebreecke blijven d’ heele off halve gagie van d’ knegts die haer van d’ E.Compa. in leening sijn vergunt voor ‘t gepasseerde halve jaer in ‘s Comps. cassa in ‘t faveur van d’ knechts te voldoen, onder het impertinente voorgeven van onvermogens te wesen om ‘t selve voor98 present te connen opbrengen, daer nochtans d’ geseijde knechts off in haeren dienst dit jaer hebben gehadt off noch continueren, waerdoor d’ E.Compa. (die genouchsaem als borge voor de betalinge van dien staet) gants buijten alle reeden soude te cort geschieden, Soo is verstaan van alle sodanige doorbrengende borgers en die geene die niet machtich sijn om te connen betaelen, d’ geleende knechts weder in te trecken, mitsgaders d’ betaelingh van ‘t geen bij haer verdient hebben, te doen consequeren, ‘t sij bij weegen van executie off op wat manier ‘t selve ooc soude mogen wesen, omme d’ E.Compa. buijten sulcke absurde schade te houden en derselver dienaers aen ‘t haere te helpen.
In ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop datum ut supra.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
Geconsidereert sijnde dat aan enige deser borgers in d’ maant December des jaars 1677 enige jonge Madagascarse slaven en slavinnen sijn gegeven om d’ selve op te voeden, mits na expiratie van een jaer met d’ E. Compa. om d’ geen die als dan in ‘t leven soude wesen, te boten ende soodanige die haer alsdan te beurt souden vallen aan d’ E. Compa. ‘t stuck voor stuck tot 25 Rxrs te betaelen, en d’ geen die haer middelerwijle mochte wesen afgestorven mede tot 12 1/2 Rxrs. aen d’ E.Compa. te voldoen; invoegen ooc daar op in d’ maant Januarij deses jaars de lootinge tusschen haer en d’ E.Compa. is geschiet95 en d’ gemelte borgers een getal van …96 stucks te beurt gevallen met die conditie om deselve aan d’ E.Compa. ten eersten te betaelen, sonder dat echter tot dato ‘t meeste gedeelte derselver ijets daervan hebben betaelt, onaengesien d’ gemelte penningen diverse maelen door d’ gerechtsbode sijn opg’eijscht, sonder apparentie dat in geruijmen tijdt off wel oijt d’ E.Compa. d’ vergoedinge sal becomen, Soo is naer genomen deliberatie goet gevonden97 d’ gemelte lijffeijgene[n] sonder langer dilaij van alle sodanige die men voorsiet niet machtich te wesen om d’ selve in ‘t corte te connen voldoen, d’aanstaande maant op t’ eijschen om aan d’ E.Compa weder gerestitueert te werden, en haer daer heen te houden dat d’ geen die haer sijn afgestorven soo haast als mogelijck mede comen betaelen, te meer d’ meeste van dit volckje daer toe wel gelegentheijt hebbende gehadt, d’ voldoeninge voorbedachtelijck vergeeten en alles op den ouden kerf-stock maer trachten te laeten heen loopen, sonder dese favorabile verstreckinge t’ erkennen off haer om de betalinge veel te bemoeijen.
Insgelijcx mede geconsidereert sijnde dat enige sloffe en quistige landtbouwers in gebreecke blijven d’ heele off halve gagie van d’ knegts die haer van d’ E.Compa. in leening sijn vergunt voor ‘t gepasseerde halve jaer in ‘s Comps. cassa in ‘t faveur van d’ knechts te voldoen, onder het impertinente voorgeven van onvermogens te wesen om ‘t selve voor98 present te connen opbrengen, daer nochtans d’ geseijde knechts off in haeren dienst dit jaer hebben gehadt off noch continueren, waerdoor d’ E.Compa. (die genouchsaem als borge voor de betalinge van dien staet) gants buijten alle reeden soude te cort geschieden, Soo is verstaan van alle sodanige doorbrengende borgers en die geene die niet machtich sijn om te connen betaelen, d’ geleende knechts weder in te trecken, mitsgaders d’ betaelingh van ‘t geen bij haer verdient hebben, te doen consequeren, ‘t sij bij weegen van executie off op wat manier ‘t selve ooc soude mogen wesen, omme d’ E.Compa. buijten sulcke absurde schade te houden en derselver dienaers aen ‘t haere te helpen.
In ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop datum ut supra.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.