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guests would come to, together with certain considerations 

 affecting the married men among them and other incon- 

 veniences daily arising, as experience teaches : 



Therefore the Lord Commissioner and his Council, having 

 maturely considered the points adduced above, have resolved 

 that the said common table shall be abolished, and that 

 every one who is accustomed to dine at this table, including 

 Ensigns and bookkeepers, shall have board-wages paid to 

 him ; this new regulation to take effect on the 1st March 

 next, and to continue until such time as the Lord Governor- 

 General, having been advised of the same, shall, by letter, 

 order the said regulation to be rescinded, 



Touching the petition of the sergeants and corporals of 

 the Adelborsts, requesting that, like the officers aforesaid, 

 they might be paid their board-wages monthly, 



Regard being had to the scarcity of cash within 'this town 

 of Galle, owing to which such payment could not be con- 

 tinued long : 



It has been resolved, that to relieve 



MS. fol. 26. 



said petitioners to some extent, they shall have given out to 

 them half a measure of rice monthly over and above their 

 ordinary rati on, together with one piece-of -eight 1 on account. 



Paulus Donq of Zutphen, arrived in this country in 1642 

 as a Captain on a salary of 72 guilders per month, at present 

 first Captain of this garrison, is, for various considerations, 

 and also because the late Captain Eiviere was in receipt of a 

 higher salary, allowed a pay of 75 guilders monthly, from 

 the present date. 



Jan Symensz van der Laen of Vianen, arrived in India in 

 1635 in the ship " Hollandia " as an Adelborst, having gone 

 through various ranks and now appointed provisional Captain 

 of this garrison, is, in consideration of the excellent services 

 rendered by him and still to be rendered, and of his activity 



1 See note on page 407. 



