Cape Council of Policy
84
1656-05-18
Minute details
- Entry number
- 84
- Date
- 1656-05-18
- Year
- 1656
English translation
Considering the serious recommendations and successive orders our Lords Masters have issued to us in their letters: in addition to cultivation, the feeding of animals should also be promoted with all possible diligence, in order that for the first time one could not only accommodate and refresh the ships here daily with fresh meat, in addition to the garden fruits, during their mooring: but also provide the people of this settlement with fresh meat instead of salty meat and speck, as all 260 of them are fairly brought into training, and furthermore all lighten the burden for the Company. would give if one could get so much butter from the dairy cows, that one would no longer need to be provided with that sugar from the Fatherland, to which end some animals were rented or leased at the beginning of October ao. passo. to Hendrick Boom, Comps. gardener or his wife Annetjen de Boerinne, namely each cow from the day of her farrowing for 15 guilders. in the year etc., However, it has been noticed that the animals during the dry season, principally from November to May, continuously give very little or no milk at all, not only the cows calved before that time: but also those calving during the aforementioned dry season, because the land is then very dry and poor in grass everywhere, and the tenants therefore do not want to accept the cows calving during that time, even not for nothing261 in all, because then so little milk comes from the animals that it is not worth the pain, therefore the trouble has to be made, as a result of which the calves (in experience) repeatedly die, and the so much needed ones suffer from deterioration. remain, so that all the same is taken, and if anything might further advance the foregoing, it is deemed advisable, or on the offer of the aforementioned farmer's wife for a further trial, to lease to her generally all the cows that may come to calve between this and the new year or next January, as well as those of the E. Compe. present, as well as any further matters that may be negotiated between the inhabitants at that time, and that for the sum of one hundred guilders at a time: in order to renew the lease every new year, everything concerning the sale of milk and butter as well as the raising of young calves (for the E. Compe.) by provision and up to the aforementioned time on the same terms and conditions as were made in the passado with the same farmer's husband primo October ao, and that she will also try to raise all the calves, at her own expense, with all possible diligence, although in the dry season some cows give little or no milk, so that the quench for the E. Compe. but the more might be required; And since she complained very much that since she was burdened with eight children on her husband's allowance (being 4 Ra.) she would not be able to live with all those children at all, since she also found so much profit from the animals for the reasons mentioned above, she therefore requested that she be allowed to keep an inn as a wage and accommodation for the outgoing and incoming men of the passing ships, because she had understood that the Lords Masters had allowed this for her relief, but for those who desired to become free, thinking that she was a free woman enough and as she was heavily burdened with so many children, she should at least be granted this, because she also no one dares to propose in freedom that they first make a trial with how or with what they might be able to remain free, so that primarily considering the relief of the E. Compe. & al., this is hereby provisionally granted to them, in the meantime they will offer themselves to do so in freedom; provided that they remain obliged to buy all their provisions and drink & al. necessary for this from the Comp.'s warehouse, and to remain subject to such further taxes or impositions and ordinances as in time shall be deemed most necessary for the Comp., ultimately in time and while as also from any other matter the E. Compe. providing them with food and monthly allowances on a monthly basis, without it being necessary to send more cash from the homeland for that purpose.263
And to further enhance this, it has also been resolved to sell Spanish and French wines to innkeepers at 30 stuivers per can and 10 stuivers per can, with the price being 1 guilder per pint, or 2 guilders per can.264 However, Comptroller's servants (officials here in this fortress being present) will each receive six cans per month at the same price of 30 stuivers. without rent.265
Thus done and resolved in 't Fort de Goede Hope date from above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, SECRETS.
And to further enhance this, it has also been resolved to sell Spanish and French wines to innkeepers at 30 stuivers per can and 10 stuivers per can, with the price being 1 guilder per pint, or 2 guilders per can.264 However, Comptroller's servants (officials here in this fortress being present) will each receive six cans per month at the same price of 30 stuivers. without rent.265
Thus done and resolved in 't Fort de Goede Hope date from above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, SECRETS.
Original Dutch transcription
Gesien de ernstige recommandatien ende successive ordren onser Heeren Meesters per derselver missiven aen ons doorgaens gevende: omme beneffens de culture oock den aenqueeck van bestiael met allen doenlijck ijver te vorderen, ten eijnde men voor eerst niet alleen de schepen geduijrende haer leggen alhier soude cunnen nevens de thuijnvruchten dagelix met versch vleijs accommoderen ende ververssen: maer oock voor ‘t volcq deser besettinghe in plaetse van soute vleijs ende speck versch vleijs schaffen gelijck redealle beijde260 fraij in train gebracht is, Ende nademael het oock al verlichtinge voor de Compe. soude geven als men van de melckkoeijen soo veel boter cost becomen, dat men van dat suijvel uijt ‘t Patria mede niet meer behoeffden geprovideert te worden, ten welcken eijnde eenige beesten primo October ao. passo. aen Hendrick Boom, Comps. hovenier offte sijn huijsvrouw Annetjen de Boerinne, waren verhuijrt offte verpacht, namentlijcq ijder koe van den dach haerder werpinghe voor 15 gl. in ‘t jaer &a., Edoch gemerckt de beesten in de drooge tijt principael van November tot Maij geduijrende gansch weijnich off wel heel geen melck en geven, niet alleen de voor die tijt gecalffde koeijen: maer oock die staende voorhaelde drooghe tijt calven vermits ‘t landt dan seer dor ende schrael van gras overal is, ende den pachters daeromme de in die tijt calvende koeijen niet willen aennemen, selfs nietvoor niet261 met al, vermits als dan soo weijnich melcq van de beesten compt dattet te pijne waert niet is, daerom de moeijten te doen, waer door dan de calffjens (na ondervindinghe) telckens weder comen te sterven, ende den soo hooch noodighen aenqueeck in verachteringhe te blijven, soo is allen ‘t selve ingenomen synde, ende wes meer tot vorderinge van ‘t voorige mochte strecken, raedsamer geacht offte op de aanbiedinge van de voorsz boerinne tot een nader preuve goetgevonden, haer generalijck te verpachten alle de koeijen die tusschen dit ende nieuwe262 jaer off Januarij aenstaende sullen mogen comen te calven, soo wel die d’ E. Compe. jegenwoordich heefft als oock welcke tusschen die tijt van d’ inwoonders noch meer mochten comen gehandelt te worden, ende dat voor de somme van hondert guldens eens: omme dan de verpachtinghe alle nieuwe jaer te vernieuwen, alles aengaende ‘t vercopen van de melck ende boter als oock ‘t opbrengen der jonghe calffjes (voor d’ E. Compe.) bij provisie ende tot voorsz tijt op soodanighe voorwaerden ende conditien als primo October ao. passado met den selven boerin haer man is gemaeckt, ende dat sij tot haren laste oock alle de calffjens, met alle doenlijcken ijver, sal trachten op te brengen, schoon in de drooge tijt eenige koeijen geen offte weijnich melck geven, op dat den aenqueeck voor d’ E. Compe. doch te meer mochte gevordert worden; Ende nademael deselve seer is clagende dat vermits met acht kinderen beladen sit op haer mans costgelt (4 Ra. sijnde) alleen gansch niet sal cunnen met al die kinderen leven vermits oock soo veel proffijt aen de beesten om redenen voorsz en vindt, derhalven dienstelijck is versoeckende dat haer mochte toegestaen worden herberge te mogen houden tot tractement ende huijsvestinge van de gaende en de comende man der passerende schepen, dewijle verstaen had’ sulcx de Heeren Meesters t’ haerder ontlastinge doch hadden toegestaen, voor degeene welcke begeerden vrij te worden, menende sij genouchsaem een vrije vrouwe te wesen ende als voorsz hooch belast met soo veel kinderen dienvolgende haer sulcx ten minsten wel mochte worden vergunt, dewijle datter sich oock noch niemant in vrijdom derfft stellen voor dat se eerst een proeff nemen hoe off waermede sij souden cunnen off mogen behouden blijven, soo is principalijck gesien op d’ ontlastinge van d’ E. Compe. &a., haer sulcx bij desen provisionelijck toegestaen, ter tijt sich ijmant om sulcx te doen in vrydom sal aenbieden; mits gehouden blijvende alle hare provisien ende dranck &a. daer toe van nooden uijt Comps. magasijn te copen, ende subject te blijven soodanighe verdere belastingen offte impositien ende ordonnantien als metter tijt ten meesten dienste van de Compe. sal bevonden worden te vereijsschen, ten eijnde in tijt ende wijle daer als oocq uijt eenige ander saecken d’ E. Compe. haer gevende cost ende maentgelden op reecqe. alhier mochten vinden, sonder van node te sijn ten dien eijnde meer contanten uijt ‘t vaderlandt te ontbeeden &a.263
Ende omme ‘t selve te beter te accresseren is oock geresolveert de Spaens ende France wijnen de herbergiers te vercoopen tot 30 stuijvers, de flapcan ende 10 stuijvers van pacht op ijder ditto can mits sijl. deselve weder sullen mogen uijttappen tot 1 gulden de pint, offte 2 gulden ‘t mingelen,264 edoch Comps. dienaers (officianten hier in dese fortresse bescheijden wesende) ijder ses cannen ‘s maents ten selven prijse van 30 stver. sonder pacht.265
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope datum ut supra.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, SECRETS.
Ende omme ‘t selve te beter te accresseren is oock geresolveert de Spaens ende France wijnen de herbergiers te vercoopen tot 30 stuijvers, de flapcan ende 10 stuijvers van pacht op ijder ditto can mits sijl. deselve weder sullen mogen uijttappen tot 1 gulden de pint, offte 2 gulden ‘t mingelen,264 edoch Comps. dienaers (officianten hier in dese fortresse bescheijden wesende) ijder ses cannen ‘s maents ten selven prijse van 30 stver. sonder pacht.265
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope datum ut supra.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, SECRETS.