Cape Council of Policy
954
1693-01-08
Minute details
- Entry number
- 954
- Date
- 1693-01-08
- Year
- 1693
English translation
In the presence of all members.
The commissioners for the recording of the freemen's securities and their actions, having reported how some of these free residents, driven by vile desire to deprive the E.S. Company of its legitimate income from the tenth of their collected grain, have misplaced most of their grain harvest, and have by no means declared the grain they had harvested in the fields, in mounds, or already threshed.
Therefore, it has been decided and approved, in order to assist the E.S. Company in its efforts and to prevent such frauds in the future, to order as soon as possible by placard73 that no one of these residents shall henceforth and until further notice deliver their grain anywhere other than here to the E.S. Company. to sell, also that no one in the future will be able to bake bread or sweet cakes for other people or to sell them, unless he had obtained written permission from the Honorable Governor, on penalty of one hundred guilders, to be forfeited to anyone found to have violated these orders and, in addition, to work for six months on common works without pay.74
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope on the day and year as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] C. J. SIMONS.
[Signed:] W. PADT.
[Signed:] ADRIAEN VAN REEDE.
[Signed:] Me presente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.
The commissioners for the recording of the freemen's securities and their actions, having reported how some of these free residents, driven by vile desire to deprive the E.S. Company of its legitimate income from the tenth of their collected grain, have misplaced most of their grain harvest, and have by no means declared the grain they had harvested in the fields, in mounds, or already threshed.
Therefore, it has been decided and approved, in order to assist the E.S. Company in its efforts and to prevent such frauds in the future, to order as soon as possible by placard73 that no one of these residents shall henceforth and until further notice deliver their grain anywhere other than here to the E.S. Company. to sell, also that no one in the future will be able to bake bread or sweet cakes for other people or to sell them, unless he had obtained written permission from the Honorable Governor, on penalty of one hundred guilders, to be forfeited to anyone found to have violated these orders and, in addition, to work for six months on common works without pay.74
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope on the day and year as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] C. J. SIMONS.
[Signed:] W. PADT.
[Signed:] ADRIAEN VAN REEDE.
[Signed:] Me presente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.
Original Dutch transcription
In iegenwoordigheid van alle de leden.
De gecommitteerdens tot ‘t opnemen van der vrijluijden effecten en derselver gedoente verslag gedaan hebbende hoe enige deser vrije ingesetenen gedreven door vuijle baat-sugt en om d’ E.Comp. van haar wettig inkomen van de tiende hunner ingesamelde granen te versteken, het meeste gedeelte van hun koornougst verswegen, en op verre na niet opgaven de granen dewelke sij ten velde, of in mijten staande, of bereids gedorscht hadden.
So is goedgevonden en besloten om d’ E. Comp. an ‘t hare te helpen en diergelijke fraudes in ‘t toekomende te verhoeden, op ‘t spoedigste bij placcate te gebieden,73 dat niemand deser ingesetenen voortaan en tot nader ordre syn koorn sal vermogen elders dan hier an d’ E.Comp. te verkopen, ook dat niemand in ‘t toekomende sal vermogen voor andere luijden brood of soete koek te bakken of dien te verkopen, ‘t en ware hij daar toe schrivtelijk verlov van den Ed. Heer Gouverneur verkregen hadde, op poene van honderd Rijxd. te verbeuren bij diegene dewelke bevonden sal worden dese ordres te hebben overtreden en daar en boven een halv-jaar an de gemeene werken sonder loon t’ arbeiden.74
Aldus geärresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop ten dage en jare als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] C. J. SIMONS.
[Signed:] W. PADT.
[Signed:] ADRIAEN VAN REEDE.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.
De gecommitteerdens tot ‘t opnemen van der vrijluijden effecten en derselver gedoente verslag gedaan hebbende hoe enige deser vrije ingesetenen gedreven door vuijle baat-sugt en om d’ E.Comp. van haar wettig inkomen van de tiende hunner ingesamelde granen te versteken, het meeste gedeelte van hun koornougst verswegen, en op verre na niet opgaven de granen dewelke sij ten velde, of in mijten staande, of bereids gedorscht hadden.
So is goedgevonden en besloten om d’ E. Comp. an ‘t hare te helpen en diergelijke fraudes in ‘t toekomende te verhoeden, op ‘t spoedigste bij placcate te gebieden,73 dat niemand deser ingesetenen voortaan en tot nader ordre syn koorn sal vermogen elders dan hier an d’ E.Comp. te verkopen, ook dat niemand in ‘t toekomende sal vermogen voor andere luijden brood of soete koek te bakken of dien te verkopen, ‘t en ware hij daar toe schrivtelijk verlov van den Ed. Heer Gouverneur verkregen hadde, op poene van honderd Rijxd. te verbeuren bij diegene dewelke bevonden sal worden dese ordres te hebben overtreden en daar en boven een halv-jaar an de gemeene werken sonder loon t’ arbeiden.74
Aldus geärresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop ten dage en jare als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] C. J. SIMONS.
[Signed:] W. PADT.
[Signed:] ADRIAEN VAN REEDE.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.