Cape Council of Policy
662
1680-11-04
Minute details
- Entry number
- 662
- Date
- 1680-11-04
- Year
- 1680
English translation
Having taken due deliberation, how d’ E.Compa. at least reasonably well provided with cattle, but not in such quantity to properly supply the expected return fleet from India, which will consequently have to be supplemented with land expeditions, for which end and to invite us to do so, the Hessequan nation has sent some ambassadors here with the promise and undertaking of being very willing to make a good exchange with us, and that all their colonies were about to descend here in that regard, wherefore, with common advice, it has been decided and understood to undertake a land expedition to the said Hessequan nation, especially as we have the infallible hope of finding a good trade there, a sargeant and 18 men will be used for this purpose who will go with the Ordinary crew members, necessary for this purpose, were sent there this week.
Since the affairs of the retired dispensary, Lodewijk Francois Bureau, cannot be dealt with and concluded hastily, and for that reason it is not at all advisable that the commissioners should continuously go to the warehouses alongside the said dispensary, since this matter has already been handed over to the fiscal and legal proceedings against him have been ordered, except that his case cannot be finally disposed of without first inspecting the warehouses to determine what will be deducted from his administration, it has been decided, with common advice, that his warehouses should be inspected by the commissioners with the first pertinent consent and that the same Likewise, the assistant Albert van Breugel will be provisionally transferred and remain his responsibility, until the matters of the aforementioned Bureau are finally settled, when the absolute dispensary duties under the said Breugel's regulations will be further dealt with.
Similarly, the tax authorities have also arrested the commissioner for accepting the confiscated sheep of the regional butcher Fredrik Puggelman and his servant Jan van Beveren for the E.Compa. at his request, for 4 guilders each, large and small, calculated by all parties.
Thus resolved in the Castle of Good Hope, date ut antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. WITTEBOL.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and S.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Since the affairs of the retired dispensary, Lodewijk Francois Bureau, cannot be dealt with and concluded hastily, and for that reason it is not at all advisable that the commissioners should continuously go to the warehouses alongside the said dispensary, since this matter has already been handed over to the fiscal and legal proceedings against him have been ordered, except that his case cannot be finally disposed of without first inspecting the warehouses to determine what will be deducted from his administration, it has been decided, with common advice, that his warehouses should be inspected by the commissioners with the first pertinent consent and that the same Likewise, the assistant Albert van Breugel will be provisionally transferred and remain his responsibility, until the matters of the aforementioned Bureau are finally settled, when the absolute dispensary duties under the said Breugel's regulations will be further dealt with.
Similarly, the tax authorities have also arrested the commissioner for accepting the confiscated sheep of the regional butcher Fredrik Puggelman and his servant Jan van Beveren for the E.Compa. at his request, for 4 guilders each, large and small, calculated by all parties.
Thus resolved in the Castle of Good Hope, date ut antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. WITTEBOL.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and S.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Original Dutch transcription
In rijpelijcken deliberatie genoomen sijnde, hoedat d’ E.Compa. althans wel redelijk van vee is versien, maar egter niet van soodaniegen(sic)quantiteit om de verwagt werdende retourvlooth uit India daar van na behooren te voorsien, dat gevolglijck met landttochten te doen sal dienen te werden gesupleert, tot welken eijnde en om ons daar toe uijt te nodigen, de Hessequase natie eenige gesanten hebben herrewaarts gesonden met belofte en toesegginge van seer genegen te wesen om met ons een goede ruijlinge aan te gaan, en dat alle haare cooralen ten dien opsigte herwaarts stonden aff te sacken, weshalven met gemeen advijs is goedt gevonden en verstaan een landttocht nae de gemelte Hessequase natie te ondernemen, te meer alsoo onfeilbaare hoop hebben aldaar een goede handel te sullen aan treffen, sullen daertoe werden gebruik[t] een sargeant en 18 man die met de gewoone coopmanschappen, daartoe noodigh, sullen werden voorsien en nog dese weeck derwaarts af gesonden.
Overmits de saacken van de gesaijseerden dispensier, Lodewijk Francois Bureau, niet ijlens sullen connen werden aff gehandelt en getermineert, en uijt dien hoofde gantsch geen schick wesen dat de gecom[m]itteerdens continueel nevens den gemelten dispensier in de packhuijsen souden gaan, vermits die saak reets den fiscaal in handen gegeven en tegens hem na regten te procederen gelast is, behalven dat over desselfs saak niet finalijck sal connen werden gedisponneert, sonder dat alvoorens de vivresmagasijnen sullen wesen opgenoomen, om te ervaren wat den selven op sijn gevoerde administratie sal te cort comen, Soo is met gemeen advijs verstaan desselfs packhuijsen met den eersten door gecommitteerdens pertinent te laeten opnemen en dat den selvente gelijck275 aen den adsistent Albert van Breugel provisioneel sullen werden overgetransporteert en tot sijn verantwoordige blijven, inmiddels tot de saecken van den gemelten Bureaut’ eenemael276 sullen wesen affgehandelt, wanneer over de absolute dispensiersbedieninge in ‘t reguart van den gemelten Breugel naeder sal werden gedisponneert.
Insgelijx is mede g’arressteert den fiscaalsportie nopende den geconfisqueerde schaapen van den gewes[en] baas slagter Fredrik Puggelman en desselfs knegt Jan van Beveren op sijn versoeck voor d’ E.Compa. aan te nemen en dat tegens 4 gulden[s] yder stuck, groot en cleen door malcanderen gerekent.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop datum ut antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. WITTEBOL.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en S.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Overmits de saacken van de gesaijseerden dispensier, Lodewijk Francois Bureau, niet ijlens sullen connen werden aff gehandelt en getermineert, en uijt dien hoofde gantsch geen schick wesen dat de gecom[m]itteerdens continueel nevens den gemelten dispensier in de packhuijsen souden gaan, vermits die saak reets den fiscaal in handen gegeven en tegens hem na regten te procederen gelast is, behalven dat over desselfs saak niet finalijck sal connen werden gedisponneert, sonder dat alvoorens de vivresmagasijnen sullen wesen opgenoomen, om te ervaren wat den selven op sijn gevoerde administratie sal te cort comen, Soo is met gemeen advijs verstaan desselfs packhuijsen met den eersten door gecommitteerdens pertinent te laeten opnemen en dat den selvente gelijck275 aen den adsistent Albert van Breugel provisioneel sullen werden overgetransporteert en tot sijn verantwoordige blijven, inmiddels tot de saecken van den gemelten Bureaut’ eenemael276 sullen wesen affgehandelt, wanneer over de absolute dispensiersbedieninge in ‘t reguart van den gemelten Breugel naeder sal werden gedisponneert.
Insgelijx is mede g’arressteert den fiscaalsportie nopende den geconfisqueerde schaapen van den gewes[en] baas slagter Fredrik Puggelman en desselfs knegt Jan van Beveren op sijn versoeck voor d’ E.Compa. aan te nemen en dat tegens 4 gulden[s] yder stuck, groot en cleen door malcanderen gerekent.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop datum ut antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. WITTEBOL.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en S.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.