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• 4 plots in Neira: 150 rixdollars, totaling 37,790 rixdollars
• 5 plots in Pelans: 50 rixdollars, totaling 22,900 rixdollars
• 6 plots on the inner coast: 90 rixdollars, totaling 77,085 rixdollars
• 12 plots in Conthoir: 50 rixdollars, totaling 101,671 rixdollars
• 6 plots in Ourien: 4 rixdollars, totaling 25,880 rixdollars
• 7 plots in Waijer: totaling 71,150 rixdollars
• 14 plots: totaling 8,488 rixdollars
• Additional plots: totaling 44,200 rixdollars

• Whether the reportedly surviving 8,945 nutmeg trees were actually dead due to damaged branches and lack of necessary protection
• How many additional trees had fallen since the initial survey that were not counted in the first inspection

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• P. I. Valckenaer
• G. C. Meurs
• J. G. v. Raesoelo
• G. W. v. Rengsse
• A. de Champagnet
• B. v. de Walle
• K. Koenes

• Leaders would serve as guides on the expedition to the Sangir Islands
• It would prevent the Alfurs (indigenous people) from mistakenly seeing Company subjects as enemies and mistreating them due to misunderstanding

• A meeting took place in July 1777 to discuss military action against enemies.
• The council decided not to send a ship called the Baak to the Sangias islands because most sailors had already left for Manado with the Baak, and it was uncertain whether the ship would find the enemy there or defeat them.
• The council remembered that the king of Ternate had sent 4 agreed-upon war vessels plus 5 or 6 well-manned war ships with the Baak to Manado to patrol against the Magindanao people.
• The council proposed asking the king to redirect these patrol ships from the coast of Celebes to the Sangirs islands to search for and chase away the enemy.
• All council members approved this proposal on the 31st.
• Secretary Koenes and interpreter van Dijk were immediately sent to present this plan to the king on behalf of the governor and council.
• They requested that if the king agreed, he should prepare written orders for the patrol ship commanders, which the council would send to Manado with a Chinese vessel that planned to sail there soon.
• The two representatives returned shortly and reported that the king of Ternate immediately agreed to the proposal and would quickly write orders for his officers to search for and fight the Magindanao people in the Sangias.
• The king requested that Resident Hemmekam be instructed to provide his people with proper food supplies before departure, so lack of provisions would not ruin the government's useful plan or prevent his men from taking effective action against the enemy.
• The king also requested that Resident Hemmekam provide his patrol fleet with 2 or 3 experienced sailors from Manado.

• The council decided to remind Hemmekam again that the 170 men from Ternate who were coming, together with their 130 companions who were already on Manado, would have to protect the Manado outposts of Rema and Amoerang. This had already been explained to the Resident in a secret letter from 6 February and an extract from secret letters to Their High Lordships dated 1 July 1776. These papers would serve as fundamental instruction documents for Hommekam.
• However, because it was impossible to foresee all situations and events, the council members unanimously decided not to bind the Resident completely to these orders. Instead, they allowed him to use part of the paid Ternatese soldiers in other nearby places if the situation required it, in order to control the enemy. The Resident would have to be able to justify his actions at all times. In such cases, at least half of the local soldiers would have to remain at Zema and Amoerang to protect those places, which was the main reason for hiring them. The council also told the Resident that it went without saying that when everything was quiet in Manado and the surrounding area, the 300 Ternatese and Alfurese soldiers should be stationed at Kema and Amoerang as planned, and not elsewhere.
• The discussion then turned to the crew that the bark ship De Ida would need to be able to attack and defend against the enemy. The Governor explained that he had consulted with equipment supervisor Adolfs and commander van der Staal, who both thought that at least 80 or 90 men were needed to operate such a large vessel and to fight the enemy. The council members agreed that fewer crew would not work, so they decided to set the total crew of the bark De Ida at 83 men.
• However, when this ship arrived it had only 37 men.

• Officials discussed expecting a desired outcome with anticipation.
• They decided to publicly announce that weapons and military supplies had been provided to the people of Ternate, both at the request of the king of Ternate and to enable the Ternate people to bravely resist the enemy.
• The following war ammunition was given to the combined war boats for later accounting, in addition to the king's own artillery and the native weapons of the Ternate people:
  • 400 pounds or 8 barrels of gunpowder
  • 8 metal cannons of ½ pound ball
  • 1 iron cannon
  • 270 cannon balls of ½ pound
  • 62 grapeshot of ½ pound
  • 500 sharp musket cartridges
  • 12 grapeshot of 1 pound
  • 30 round shot of 1 pound
  • 18 long shot of 1 pound
  • 24 muskets
  • 24 small cartridge pouches
  • 100 flints
• It was decided that Resident Hemmekam should be informed about these items and other important points of this operation, so he could ensure these goods were not wasted unnecessarily or embezzled by the natives.
• Hemmekam also had to ensure these military supplies were divided as evenly as possible among the 300 paid Ternate soldiers when the raiding vessels departed.
• The exact departure time of the auxiliary force from this port should be given to Hemmekam so he could regulate the distribution of the designated rations as gifts to the people of Salempoeri.
• Hemmekam was strongly recommended again to treat the paid Moluccan soldiers well and friendly, pay them on time, and help them without harming the Company, so the Council would not have to hear complaints like those the natives brought against the leaders of the Celebes expedition the previous year.

• The authorities showed interest in Houque's accounts when opportunities arose
• The resident of Gorontalo, de Walle, and later resident Mol worked hard to force Houque's debtors in Gorontalo to pay

Ajo Tjanko, a Chinese engineer, wrote a letter to Paulus Gothofredus van der Voort, who was Governor and Director.

On 26 July, he received a letter via Amboina from 30 November 1775. From this letter, he learned that no English ships or vessels had been seen near Maccassar or in the Bouton strait for some time. This year, nothing special had been heard about the English or other European foreigners either.

However, the northwest coast of Celebes, especially the area of Manado, had been seriously troubled this year by pirates from Magindanau. In May, these pirates attacked these coasts with no less than 40 heavily armed pirate ships. According to rumors, some of these ships had crews of 300 men. Because of this large force, the pirates captured the post at Kema and the Company's ships Sara Maria and het Haasje.

This forced them to send an equally strong fleet against these criminals. The fleet included:

• the ship Schoonzigt which was present there
• 2 ships called Pantjallangs
• 4 armed boats from Ternate called Corra Corras

Together, these ships had crews of more than 600 men. Unfortunately, this fleet did not find the pirates, as they had fled shortly before. However, according to rumors and some statements that came in, the letter continued but was incomplete, dated 31 July 1776, from Macassar via Amboina.

The commissioners had incorrectly claimed 129 rijksdaalders for expenses that exceeded their income in their general account. However, they should have only calculated 114 rijksdaalders for this matter if they had paid attention to letters and orders that had been sent to them over time, which sometimes rejected parts of their submitted accounts.

Three specific amounts were rejected from the commissioners' earlier accounts:

• On 24 September 1774, payment of 8 rijksdaalders for unloading rations was denied because local inhabitants were required to perform such services for free, and because the commissioners could have had soldiers and citizens (about 40 men strong at that time) unload the rations if the locals refused
• On 26 June 1775, only the regular rental fee of 5 rijksdaalders was approved for hiring a praauw (boat) that had brought their letters, instead of the amount the commissioners had listed in their account
• Also on 26 June 1775, a sum of 4 rijksdaalders was rejected for renting a local house to store rations and luggage, because local inhabitants were required to provide such storage places without payment

These three rejected items totaled 15 rijksdaalders, which the commissioners should not have included in their account. If they had left these amounts out, their excess expenses would have been 114 rijksdaalders instead of 129 rijksdaalders, and they received 114 rijksdaalders back.

Regarding arak (a type of alcoholic drink), the commissioners' inconsistent reporting caused confusion. At the end of their general account, they claimed only 81 cans of excess arak used, but near the end of their summary report they stated 331 cans and requested reimbursement for that quantity. The decision about the used arak was made based on this report, though it would have been better to follow the amount listed in the account.

• 95½ pounds of gunpowder
• 2 fine bleached guineas that were damaged on a cancelled trip to Xullok through no fault of the commissioners

The Sultan gave pardon to everyone according to a letter from 23 July, even though captured kuamans (officials) and returning mantries (officials) from Calangers made many accusations against Pangerang Mancoenagara. These accusations seemed credible, but it raised doubts because the Sultan normally did not overlook such serious crimes. Pangerang Mancoenagara insisted he had no part in the unrest at Gagattan and would remain quiet and not give offense as long as he was not wronged by the Mattaram Court. The Sultan had made his subjects, including the mantries, promise loyalty again, and it was hoped he would give up any further actions. The writer stated that if the Sultan's subjects who were also guilty fell into his hands, he would deal with them the same way as those from Java's east coast to discourage others in the future.

• The Governor and Director of Java's northeast coast wrote a separate letter to the senior merchant and First Resident at the court of the Sultan in Djokjocarta, Ian Matthijs van Rhijn, dated 1 August 1777 from Samarang.
• This was in response to separate letters from 17, 22, and 26 July.
• A Javanese person named Harak Mattie had been brought to Samarang, and the Governor sent him to Batavia for banishment because he had badly behaved against the Sultan.
• The Governor asked van Rhijn to inform the Sultan about this when the opportunity arose and to assure him that the Governor would do the same with all those under the Company's authority.

F. E. van Stralen wrote a letter from Souracarta on 28 July 1717. He expressed doubt about the credibility of certain information regarding a prince, suggesting that the person reporting might add more accusations against the prince to save his own life. Van Stralen acknowledged that some circumstances seemed believable, but warned that experience had taught him that dishonest people were skilled at covering up their wrongdoing. He reminded his superior how he had recently been misled about the destruction of lands belonging to the tommon­gong of Wiers Rietp, which turned out to be completely different from what letters and reports had suggested, despite appearing credible. Van Stralen assured his superior that he would keep careful watch over everything and claimed to have such good contacts that neither the pangerang nor any of his main associates could make the smallest move without him being informed about it.

Fredrik Christoffel van Stralendorf, captain and First Resident at Souracarta, wrote a letter to the governor and Director of Java's northeast coast on 20 July 1747.

He responded to a letter from 18 July by investigating information about Brodjo Mengollo, a former leader of the kalangs (a specific group of people). Van Stralendorf sent his findings in Javanese and concluded that there was little truth to what this returned fugitive had said.

According to Van Stralendorf's investigation:

• Some villages had been exchanged, but this happened peacefully among family members
• There had been a village from Java's east coast involved in conflicts, but this had happened a year or more ago, not recently

Van Stralendorf stated he could never believe that Prince Mancoenagara had directly participated in the attack on Gagatan. However, he thought it was more likely that some of the prince's people were involved, and that the prince had looked the other way while pretending not to know about it.

Van Stralendorf felt such behavior would not be very blameworthy, especially because the sultan had always tried to cause trouble and harm to Mancoenagara and still did. The sultan was trying to get rid of the prince. Van Stralendorf's predecessor Beuman had already noted this in a separate letter from 23 May 1763, stating that the sultan absolutely sought to remove Prince Adipattij Mankoenagara from Java. Van Stralendorf believed this, because then the sultan would have free rein to deal with the emperor as he pleased.

On the east coast of Java, a confrontation had taken place in the southern mountains, in which 6 to 7 people were killed. At first, people thought this was an action by Djoejocartan forces against the lands of pangerang Morcoenagara. However, after investigation it turned out that the inhabitants of one of the emperor's villages had split into two groups and fought each other. The emperor had the leader of the guilty group brought to Souracanta and executed him as an example to others. He issued strict new orders that when cromans or other troublemakers invaded his lands, the neighboring villages had to help each other, but only within his own territory and definitely not on the sultan's lands, to avoid disputes.

The letter was signed by I. B. v. der Burgh in Samarang on 31 July 1777.