Cape Council of Policy
791
1686-07-01
Minute details
- Entry number
- 791
- Date
- 1686-07-01
- Year
- 1686
English translation
In the presence of all the members, except Sr. Van Breugel.
After the Reverend Commissioner had heard the report of the commissioners to inspect mine at De Wittebomen, and read their solemn declaration, in which they swear to their husbands, true words, in accordance with their orders, that on the 28th of last month they had joined them at De Wittebomen, the aforementioned mine. Finding it partially filled with water, they discharged it, sinking it to a depth of 17 fathoms, all the way to the ground, without finding the slightest sign or appearance of a current, ore, mineral, or any indica-
tions common to miners; Judging the same work to be highly detrimental to the E.S. Company if it were kept at hand any longer; having made this known to the E.S. Commander in Council, it was decided to send, primarily for the E.S. Company's benefit, the Mountain Scout Frederik Math. van Werlinghof, along with the other mountain workers, to Batavia by the present ships Spierdijk, Jambij, and Bronste, to be deployed from there to the west coast of Sumatra; only those whom the Mountain Master, Gabriel Muller, deems necessary for the E.S. Company's service here will remain here.
It has further been understood and decided that the residents here in the Table Valley will, for the future security of their homes and to preserve them from arson and other inconveniences, erect thick walls without roofs up to twenty feet above the ground, and that within three months they will be required to demolish their dry fences and enclose their properties in palisades or walls, subject to a fine of one hundred rixds.
Finally, it has been decided that many residents here possess inheritances in ownership or in fief, who cannot provide sufficient proof of their possession, and that their documents or letters are lost or damaged and defective, and that, furthermore, it is noted that, because the inheritance letter book kept at the Secretariat has been defective and undamaged for a long time or otherwise, it should be copied in a new and well-bound book and authenticated by the Secretary. To this end, the residents will be obliged to present their inheritance and loan letters to the Honorable Commendatore and bring them to the Secretary within a period of two months, under penalty of forfeiture of their rights, in order to legitimize their possession and to give their descendants every opportunity of removal. and to take legal action.41
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope. Year and day as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] Present, J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrt.
After the Reverend Commissioner had heard the report of the commissioners to inspect mine at De Wittebomen, and read their solemn declaration, in which they swear to their husbands, true words, in accordance with their orders, that on the 28th of last month they had joined them at De Wittebomen, the aforementioned mine. Finding it partially filled with water, they discharged it, sinking it to a depth of 17 fathoms, all the way to the ground, without finding the slightest sign or appearance of a current, ore, mineral, or any indica-
tions common to miners; Judging the same work to be highly detrimental to the E.S. Company if it were kept at hand any longer; having made this known to the E.S. Commander in Council, it was decided to send, primarily for the E.S. Company's benefit, the Mountain Scout Frederik Math. van Werlinghof, along with the other mountain workers, to Batavia by the present ships Spierdijk, Jambij, and Bronste, to be deployed from there to the west coast of Sumatra; only those whom the Mountain Master, Gabriel Muller, deems necessary for the E.S. Company's service here will remain here.
It has further been understood and decided that the residents here in the Table Valley will, for the future security of their homes and to preserve them from arson and other inconveniences, erect thick walls without roofs up to twenty feet above the ground, and that within three months they will be required to demolish their dry fences and enclose their properties in palisades or walls, subject to a fine of one hundred rixds.
Finally, it has been decided that many residents here possess inheritances in ownership or in fief, who cannot provide sufficient proof of their possession, and that their documents or letters are lost or damaged and defective, and that, furthermore, it is noted that, because the inheritance letter book kept at the Secretariat has been defective and undamaged for a long time or otherwise, it should be copied in a new and well-bound book and authenticated by the Secretary. To this end, the residents will be obliged to present their inheritance and loan letters to the Honorable Commendatore and bring them to the Secretary within a period of two months, under penalty of forfeiture of their rights, in order to legitimize their possession and to give their descendants every opportunity of removal. and to take legal action.41
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope. Year and day as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] Present, J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrt.
Original Dutch transcription
In tegenwoordigheid van alle de leden, uijtgenomen sr. Van Breugel.
Nadaat de E.Heer Commendeur gehoord hadde ‘t berigt der gecommitteerdens tot ‘t besigtigen van de mijne an de Wittebomen , en gelesen derselver solemneele verklaring, waar bij sij onder praesentatie van eede bij haare manne ware woorden versekeren, in gevolge harer ordres, op den 28 des laastlede maands hun an de voors. mijne de Wittebomen vervoegd te hebben, die sij ten deele met water gevuld vindende, ‘t selve daar uijt loosden en gesamentlijk tot op 17 vademen diep daar in, en tot op den grondtoe daalden, sonder ‘t minste teken of apparentie van gang, ertz, minerâl of enige inditien bij bergwerkers gebruijcklijk te vinden; oordelende sij ‘t selve werk voor d’ E.Comp. ten hoogsten schadelijk, indien ‘t langer bij der hand soude gehouden werden; ‘t welcke d’ E.Heer Commendeur in Rade bekend gemaakt hebbende, Is verstaan ten meesten dienste van d’ E. Comp. den Berghopman, Frederik Math. van Werlinghof, nevens de verdere bergwerkers na Batavia per d’ anwesende schepen Spierdijk , Jambij en Bronste te versenden, om daar van daan op de west-cust van Sumatra geëmploijeerd te werden; sullende alleenlijk diegene hier verblijven, dewelke de berg-meester, Gabriel Muller, tot der E. Comps. dienst hier van noden oordeeld.
Verders is verstaan en besloten dat d’ ingesetenen hier in de Tafelvallei woonagtig, in ‘t toekomende tot securiteit harer huijsen, en om deselve te praeserveren voor brandstigting40 en andere ongemacken, deselve tot op twintig voeten hoog van de grond af in hegte muuren, sonder afdacken, sullen in ‘t toekomende optrecken, en dat binnen den tyd van drie maanden sullen gehouden wesen haar dorre heiningen af te breken en haar erven in palissaden of muuren te besluijten, onder een boete van honderd Rixds.
Eindelijk is goed gevonden en besloten, nademaal bevonden is dat veele ingesetenen alhier erven in eijgendom of ter leen besitten, die geen suffiçante bewijsen harer possessie konnen bijbrengen, en dat hun documenten of brieven verloren of beschadigd en defectueus zijn, daar benevens angemerkt, dewijl ‘t erv-brievboek ter Secretarie berustende, bij langheid des tijds of andersins defectueus en schadeloos gewoorden is, ‘t selve in een nieuw en welgebonden boek te doen afschrijven en door den Secretaris te laten authentiseren, sullende ten dien einde d’ ingesetenen binnen den tijd van twe maanden, onder poene dat van hun regt vervallen sullen zijn, haar erv- en lening-brieven an den E.Heer Commendeur gehouden wesen te vertonen en ter Secretarie te brengen, om door dit middel derselver possessien te legitimeren en an de nakomelingen alle gelegentheid van verwijdering en processen te nemen.41
Aldus geärresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop. Jaar en dag als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrt.
Nadaat de E.Heer Commendeur gehoord hadde ‘t berigt der gecommitteerdens tot ‘t besigtigen van de mijne an de Wittebomen , en gelesen derselver solemneele verklaring, waar bij sij onder praesentatie van eede bij haare manne ware woorden versekeren, in gevolge harer ordres, op den 28 des laastlede maands hun an de voors. mijne de Wittebomen vervoegd te hebben, die sij ten deele met water gevuld vindende, ‘t selve daar uijt loosden en gesamentlijk tot op 17 vademen diep daar in, en tot op den grondtoe daalden, sonder ‘t minste teken of apparentie van gang, ertz, minerâl of enige inditien bij bergwerkers gebruijcklijk te vinden; oordelende sij ‘t selve werk voor d’ E.Comp. ten hoogsten schadelijk, indien ‘t langer bij der hand soude gehouden werden; ‘t welcke d’ E.Heer Commendeur in Rade bekend gemaakt hebbende, Is verstaan ten meesten dienste van d’ E. Comp. den Berghopman, Frederik Math. van Werlinghof, nevens de verdere bergwerkers na Batavia per d’ anwesende schepen Spierdijk , Jambij en Bronste te versenden, om daar van daan op de west-cust van Sumatra geëmploijeerd te werden; sullende alleenlijk diegene hier verblijven, dewelke de berg-meester, Gabriel Muller, tot der E. Comps. dienst hier van noden oordeeld.
Verders is verstaan en besloten dat d’ ingesetenen hier in de Tafelvallei woonagtig, in ‘t toekomende tot securiteit harer huijsen, en om deselve te praeserveren voor brandstigting40 en andere ongemacken, deselve tot op twintig voeten hoog van de grond af in hegte muuren, sonder afdacken, sullen in ‘t toekomende optrecken, en dat binnen den tyd van drie maanden sullen gehouden wesen haar dorre heiningen af te breken en haar erven in palissaden of muuren te besluijten, onder een boete van honderd Rixds.
Eindelijk is goed gevonden en besloten, nademaal bevonden is dat veele ingesetenen alhier erven in eijgendom of ter leen besitten, die geen suffiçante bewijsen harer possessie konnen bijbrengen, en dat hun documenten of brieven verloren of beschadigd en defectueus zijn, daar benevens angemerkt, dewijl ‘t erv-brievboek ter Secretarie berustende, bij langheid des tijds of andersins defectueus en schadeloos gewoorden is, ‘t selve in een nieuw en welgebonden boek te doen afschrijven en door den Secretaris te laten authentiseren, sullende ten dien einde d’ ingesetenen binnen den tijd van twe maanden, onder poene dat van hun regt vervallen sullen zijn, haar erv- en lening-brieven an den E.Heer Commendeur gehouden wesen te vertonen en ter Secretarie te brengen, om door dit middel derselver possessien te legitimeren en an de nakomelingen alle gelegentheid van verwijdering en processen te nemen.41
Aldus geärresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop. Jaar en dag als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrt.