The Commander demonstrated at the meeting how His E. had come to experience that some of these free residents, who own the principal vineyards, and in particular one of the most important of them, are, notwithstanding their direct and direct opposition to our good intentions and intentions, for the common good of this colony, privately selling the indigenously grown wines to the tenants of this place far above the value and price set there by the Company, without the Company. to know about this in any way, or to request a license from the authorities to do so, even if they were presumptuous, they did not hesitate to enter into written contracts with each other in this regard, which, due to the lack of wine by such tyrants, were sufficiently constrained to accept the darkest wines from them, to the great detriment of the Company. legal prerogatives which, if tolerated any longer, would be completely out of the question, at most requiring that the necessary means to prevent such be put in place, were approved and understood by edict129, according to the aforementioned deliberation, to strictly interdict and prohibit that no vineyard growers shall be able to sell any wine of the slightest kind to the tenants or any other, whoever it may be, without the express written consent of the government, or to accept all already purchased or contracted wines130 from the vineyard growers, as well as by the aforementioned edict to liberate and release such a contract from sale, or that if it is found that anyone has done so, our order violates, both in the merchant's and seller's regulations, for the first time to be subject to a financial amendment of ƒ1,000, for the second time to ƒ2,000, and the third time to a fine of ƒ3,000, to be arbitrarily corrected. Furthermore, it is decreed that the Company, to accommodate the tappers, will accept all the wine from the vineyard owners at the price of ... Rdrs.131 the register, understanding that the juice comes from the press in such a way that the vineyard owners can make a sufficient living and earn good profits.
Thus decreed in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. THE MAN, Rt. and Sects.