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Company, which does not derive the smallest profit from it, 

 and that the matter might go on from bad to worse if not in 

 time seen to ; 



It has by majority of votes been resolved to employ for 

 this purpose the services of the Commissioner and Super- 

 merchant Marten Vinck, seeing that in the lifetime of the 

 old king, his present Majesty's father, he witnessed the 

 affairs of Ceylon at Candy for a term of about seven years, 

 and now again for some time under the present king, and 

 is therefore well experienced and versed in the same ; 



The more so as he has recently been deputed to his 

 majesty on a special embassy, and as their Worships at Batavia 

 had been expecting the aforesaid Commissioner Vinck 

 already last year ; 



It has furthermore been resolved to let the said yacht 

 " Venlo " sail the day after to-morrow early, after having 

 landed the three packets of opium ; and to let it call on its 

 way to Batavia at Battecaloa, in order to get information 

 touching the state of affairs there and the doings of the king. 



Vincent Eliasz van der Goes, who came out to India in 

 the yacht "Welsinge" in 1638, as a junior boatswain on a 

 monthly pay of 6 guilders per month, and whose term of 

 engagement has expired, is by these presents at his request 

 admitted to a re-engagement for another term of three years, 

 and in the capacity of boatswain allowed a 



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monthly pay of 9 guilders, the new engagement and increase 

 of pay being held to have begun on the 6th of this present 

 month. 



Roelof Woutersz of Westeryse, who came out to India in 

 the ship "Maria de Medicis" in 1639, as a junior boatswain, 

 and the term of whose engagement is to expire in December 

 next, is by these presents at his request admitted to a 

 re-engagement in the Company's service for another term of 

 three years, and in the capacity of boatswain allowed a 

 monthly pay of 9 guilders, the increase of pay being held to 



