Cape Council of Policy
681
1681-12-20
Minute details
- Entry number
- 681
- Date
- 1681-12-20
- Year
- 1681
English translation
Having been presented to the meeting by the Commander of the Highness that His Honor had today received news by express mail from Hottentot Holland from the vendor Oeloff Bergh, that he had returned from the country and was approaching Hottentot Holland, with 250 cattle and approximately 1,000 sheep, it was decided, on the proposal of His Honor, that the Commander of the Highness should make a trip to Cuijlen to distribute the exchanged cattle there at all suitable posts, to ensure that no short cuts were made in the area, especially since the herdsmen there are somewhat suspicious of this.
During this meeting, the Reverend Kerckenraadt has appointed a double number of deacons nominated, and to this end the bottler Harmen Hackert has been delegated to us, just as this meeting has also taken full satisfaction in the elder at the Reverend Eccelesiastijcque assemblyh has been appointed for this purpose, being the Sargeant Jan Hampe.
Thus arrested and resolved in 't Casteel d' Goede Hoop, date from antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] TOBIAS FLASKAT.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Secrets.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
During this meeting, the Reverend Kerckenraadt has appointed a double number of deacons nominated, and to this end the bottler Harmen Hackert has been delegated to us, just as this meeting has also taken full satisfaction in the elder at the Reverend Eccelesiastijcque assemblyh has been appointed for this purpose, being the Sargeant Jan Hampe.
Thus arrested and resolved in 't Casteel d' Goede Hoop, date from antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] TOBIAS FLASKAT.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Secrets.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Original Dutch transcription
Door d’ Hr. Commandeur ter vergaderingh voorgedragen sijnde hoe dat sijn Ed. heden per een expressen49 uijt Hottentots Hollandt tijdingh hadde erlanght van den vendrigh Oeloff Bergh, dat den selven weder uijt ‘t landt was geretourneert en tot aen Hottentots Hollandt genadert, bij hem hebbende ongevaar 250 runderbeesten en ontrent de 1000 schaapen, soo is op de voorstellingh van sijn E. goetgevonden dat den Hr. Commandeur een keer na de Cuijlen sal doen om ‘t geruijlde vee aldaer op alle bequame posten te verdeelen, tot voorcominge dat daer ontrent geen slincxe gangen werden gepleecht, te meer de veehoeders daer van al eenighsints suspect sijn.
Staande dese vergaderinge is op ‘t dubbel genomineert getal diaconen door de Eerwaarde Kerckenraadt opgestelt, en aen ons overgelevert, daer toe g’eligeert den bottelier Harmen Hackert, gelijck deese vergaderingh mede volcomen contentement heeft genoomen in den ouderlingh bij den Eerwaarde Eccelesiastijcque vergaderingh daer toe g’eligeert, sijnde den sargeant Jan Hampe.
Aldus g’arresteert en geresolveert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Secrts.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Staande dese vergaderinge is op ‘t dubbel genomineert getal diaconen door de Eerwaarde Kerckenraadt opgestelt, en aen ons overgelevert, daer toe g’eligeert den bottelier Harmen Hackert, gelijck deese vergaderingh mede volcomen contentement heeft genoomen in den ouderlingh bij den Eerwaarde Eccelesiastijcque vergaderingh daer toe g’eligeert, sijnde den sargeant Jan Hampe.
Aldus g’arresteert en geresolveert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut antea.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Secrts.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.