NO. 53. — 1902.] GALLE DUTCH RECORDS. 



455 



For carrying the gunpowder, lead, matches, and other 

 necessaries, under the supervision of the commissioners of 

 the provisions and artillery, there shall be employed 30 

 musketeers and sailors armed with cutlasses, 30 

 of sailors, together 230 men. 



MS.fol. 109. 



The Skipper Commander Reyndert Weybrantsz is, by these 

 presents, appointed Commander and Chief of the fleet remain- 

 ing at anchor in the roadstead before Galle. 



Steven Pietersz, Skipper in the ship "Amsterdam,"is, by these 

 presents, appointed Commander of the small craft, boats, 

 skiffs, and sloops for regularly transporting to and from the 

 army all provisions, ammunition of war, and men, according 

 as occasion shall require. 



Secondly, these our landing forces shall consist 

 of 21 companies, to wit, 13 companies from 

 Batavia, originally numbering together 980 men, 

 now by illness and death reduced to 68 men 

 per company, in all ... ... 858 men 



4 ditto companies from Galle, each company 

 of 75 men ... ... ... 300 men 



4 companies of sailors, each numbering 50 men 200 men 



The carriers of gunpowder and lead belonging 

 to the train ... ... ... 32 men 



Total ... 1,390 men 

 who shall be commanded by the Lord Commander and 

 General Francois Caron, together with the Lord President 1 

 Jan Thy sen, the Captain-Major Willem van der Beecq, and 

 the other officers, and led in such order and form as shall be 

 allowed and rendered necessary by the constitution of the 

 enemy's forces and the state of the roads ; all of which 

 shall be duly ordered when occasion shall require ; 



1 President of the Political Council of G-alle, and thus Civil Governor of 

 the Dutch Possessions in Ceylon, here acting 1 as second to the General 

 Francois Caron. 



