Cape Council of Policy
833
1687-06-28
Minute details
- Entry number
- 833
- Date
- 1687-06-28
- Year
- 1687
English translation
In the presence of all the members except Mr. J. van Keulen.
The Reverend Commender, having taken note of the well-being of the Company's serf, and desiring that they be maintained in attire, as well as in suitable food, and in accordance with the good will of our Lord Masters; it has been unanimously decided that, in addition to their usual ration, they should be provided with the heads, feet, intestines, and other offal of the Company's cattle slaughtered here. To this end, the internal and external mothers will take good care that the aforementioned offal, cooked into pottage, is properly and properly distributed to the slaves. Occasionally, some old and worn-out oxen, after being brought to pasture in Hottentot Holland, will also be provided to them.
Furthermore, it has been decided that the Company To appoint a midwife, Aletta Kaisers, as a housekeeper in the hospital under the supervision of the outgoing fathers and mothers, for the comfort and well-being of the sick and to provide them with adequate food and drink, and to this end to grant her a monthly salary of twelve guilders, in addition to adequate housing, on behalf of the E.Comp. [36]
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope, for the year and day as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] DOMINIQUE DE CHAVONNES.
37
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ L1NNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] My praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrets.
The Reverend Commender, having taken note of the well-being of the Company's serf, and desiring that they be maintained in attire, as well as in suitable food, and in accordance with the good will of our Lord Masters; it has been unanimously decided that, in addition to their usual ration, they should be provided with the heads, feet, intestines, and other offal of the Company's cattle slaughtered here. To this end, the internal and external mothers will take good care that the aforementioned offal, cooked into pottage, is properly and properly distributed to the slaves. Occasionally, some old and worn-out oxen, after being brought to pasture in Hottentot Holland, will also be provided to them.
Furthermore, it has been decided that the Company To appoint a midwife, Aletta Kaisers, as a housekeeper in the hospital under the supervision of the outgoing fathers and mothers, for the comfort and well-being of the sick and to provide them with adequate food and drink, and to this end to grant her a monthly salary of twelve guilders, in addition to adequate housing, on behalf of the E.Comp. [36]
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope, for the year and day as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] DOMINIQUE DE CHAVONNES.
37
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ L1NNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] My praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
In tegenwoordigheid van alle de leden behalven mr. J. van Keulen.
D’ E.Heer Commendeur, gelet hebbende op den welstand van ‘s Comps. lijveigene, en willende dat deselve niet minder in kleding als bekwame spijs en conform onser Heeren Meesteren goedvinden onderhouden wierden; So is eenstemmig verstaan boven hun gewoonlijk ranzoen haar tot voedsel te doen verstrekken de hoofden, voeten, ingewand en verdere afval van ‘s Comps. hier ter stede geslagte vee, sullende de binne en buijte moeders ten dien einde goede sorge dragen dat de voors. afval an de slaven tot potagie gekookt, wel en ordentlijk uijtgedeeld werde: sullende somwijlen enige oude en afgedreve ossen, na dat-se in Hottentots-Holland ter weide gebragt zijn, hun mede verstrekt werden.
Verders is verstaan ‘s Comps. vroetvrouw, Aletta Kaisers, als binne moeder in ‘t Hospitâl onder d’ opsigt der buijte vaders en moeders tot gemak en gerak der sieken en om deselve van bekwame spijs en drank te versien, an te stellen, en haar ten dien einde een maandelijx tractement van twaalf gulds. nevens een bekwame woning wegens d’ E.Comp. toe te leggen.36
Aldus gearresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop, jaar en dag als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] DOMINIQUE DE CHAVONNES.
37
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ L1NNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.
D’ E.Heer Commendeur, gelet hebbende op den welstand van ‘s Comps. lijveigene, en willende dat deselve niet minder in kleding als bekwame spijs en conform onser Heeren Meesteren goedvinden onderhouden wierden; So is eenstemmig verstaan boven hun gewoonlijk ranzoen haar tot voedsel te doen verstrekken de hoofden, voeten, ingewand en verdere afval van ‘s Comps. hier ter stede geslagte vee, sullende de binne en buijte moeders ten dien einde goede sorge dragen dat de voors. afval an de slaven tot potagie gekookt, wel en ordentlijk uijtgedeeld werde: sullende somwijlen enige oude en afgedreve ossen, na dat-se in Hottentots-Holland ter weide gebragt zijn, hun mede verstrekt werden.
Verders is verstaan ‘s Comps. vroetvrouw, Aletta Kaisers, als binne moeder in ‘t Hospitâl onder d’ opsigt der buijte vaders en moeders tot gemak en gerak der sieken en om deselve van bekwame spijs en drank te versien, an te stellen, en haar ten dien einde een maandelijx tractement van twaalf gulds. nevens een bekwame woning wegens d’ E.Comp. toe te leggen.36
Aldus gearresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop, jaar en dag als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] DOMINIQUE DE CHAVONNES.
37
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNELIS PTZ L1NNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.