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be filled by his first mate Pieter Jansz of Hoorn, of whose 

 ability, fidelity, and diligence the Lord President and his 

 Council are sufficiently assured ; on the understanding that 

 furthermore one of the two second mates in the yacht 

 " Delf shaven " shall go over to the yacht " Kleyn-Sutphen" 

 before-mentioned, in order to do his duties there, seeing that 

 on the promotion of the said Pieter Jansz, the yacht " Kley n- 

 Sutphen" will lose one of its mates. 



At the humble request of Adriaen Pietersz of Maerlen- 

 beecq, who on the 7th May last was, as punishment for 

 faults committed by him, deprived of his corporal's rank and 

 pay, and degraded to a common soldier on a monthly pay of 

 9 guilders, 



it has for various considerations been resolved 

 MS.fol. 83. 



to restore the said Adriaen Pietersz to his former office on 

 the old footing. 



Balthasar Laube of Lieben, arrived in India in 1639 in the 

 ship " Banda" as a soldier, on a pay of 9 guilders monthly, and 

 afterwards successively advanced to a pay of 12 and 16 guilders 

 per month, in the capacity of overseer of the Company's 

 horses, is, by these presents, considering the good services by 

 him rendered and the vacancy now occurring, at his request 

 appointed corporal of the Adelborsts on a pay of 18 guilders 

 monthly, the increase of pay being held to have begun on the 

 21st of this month. 



Actum Galle, datum ut supra. Jan Thysen, Marten Vinck, 

 Gerrit Moutmaker, Lambert Camholt, Gerrit Maeyer, Albert 

 Hooghland, Secretary. 



Friday, the last day of July, 1643. 



MS.fol. 84. 



Whereas the Lord President and his Council have in 

 their meeting made resumption of the judicial proceedings 

 against one Wouter Barentsz of Amsterdam, surnamed Pater, 



