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25 bandoleers. 

 25 cutlasses. 

 1 bolt with 10 fetters. 

 And to the end that all the work projected or to be done 

 be in every respect finished with the greater expedition, 

 therefore the Lord General, assisted by the Captains and 

 soldiers, has undertaken to repair one part of the burnt 

 pagger, and 



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the Skipper Commander Reyndert Weybrantsz with certain 

 skippers and sailors the other part. 



The President Jan Thysen, together with the Upper- 

 merchants Marten Vinck and Pieter Vinckboous, undertake 

 the construction of the inner works, as lodgings for the men 

 and storing-places to keep the gunpowder, lead, matches, 

 provisions, and tools of all kinds from the rain. It has 

 further been resolved that both by day and by night there 

 shall constantly be in each company twelve matches burning, 

 and before daybreak all the men shall have double burning- 

 matches, that the morning prayer may be said with the men 

 standing in complete order of battle. 



Jan Jansz of Amsterdam, arrived in India in 1641 on the 

 11th July, in the ship " Harderwyck " as a carpenter, on a pay 

 of 37 guilders per month, is, by these presents, at his request, 

 considering his ability, and seeing that his engaged time is to 

 expire in five months, appointed upper carpenter on a pay of 

 50 guilders monthly, on condition that he shall be bound at 

 all times to work as much as the other and under carpenters, 

 and that from the 11th June proximo, when his time is to 

 expire, he shall continue in India for another term of three 

 successive years. 



Thus resolved and approved in the Dutch army before 

 the conquered fortress of Negumbo, date as above. (Signed) 

 Francois Caron, Jan Thysen, Willem van der Beecq, Marten 

 Vinck, Reyndert Weybrantsz, Steven Pietersz, Pieter Vinck- 

 boous, Johannes Burgers. 



