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On 14 April 1777, various orders that had been requested earlier were renewed along the coast. To promote trade, they made recommendations to the subordinate trading posts. Now that they were able to supply various goods, they would ensure that everything for Mataie would be prepared quickly, and also the last requested 4 small boats for Malacca would be made ready. The orders to keep foreign Europeans away from this coast were renewed, as well as the orders against:
  • buying and selling subjects of His Majesty the King of Spain who had been made slaves by the Moors
  • transporting more than the permitted number of slaves belonging to private individuals on the Company's ships and vessels
  • bringing more Chinese passengers than the allowed number of 6 people per vessel
As was the yearly custom, they were busy preparing the ordinary 8 cruiser ships against pirates and to protect private shipping and trade along this coast. To encourage and promote this, they sent strong recommendations to the subordinate coastal trading posts to encourage private individuals to transport products, especially rice, to Batavia. However, there was concern that private shipping would decline because in recent years several private individuals had lost their vessels, some had sold theirs or stopped using them, and few new ones were being built. The number had decreased so much that there was now a shortage of vessels in Semarang and nearly all trading posts, and thus also a lack of opportunity for large-scale transport of products. They feared that the private shipping and trade from Java, which was especially useful for Batavia, would decline year after year unless private individuals were encouraged to build new vessels. Regarding the trade books of this government from the year 1772/73, which had not been received, they requested that these be sent, as well as those from the following years. Concerning ammunition and weapons storage goods, they mentioned goods found at the post Bancallang according to statements from commissioners, which they had to withdraw on 14 April 1777, and compared the trade books of 1776/77 against the reports from the general inventory at the end of August 1776.

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den 14=e April 1777.
Als ook van de lagtoe geschte
Diverse ordres zijn hier
ter kusta gerenoveert. —
in gereedheid gebragt
Ter bevordering van den
Handel heeft men recomman„
Reedenen, waar over men be„
„minderen
dan nu wij in staat gestelt zijn het een en ander te kunnen
fourneeren, zullen wij ook zorge draagen, dat alle mogelijke over gelen voor Mataie
spoed betragt, en ook in gereedheid gebragt worde, de laast
g'eischte vier Jollen voor Malacca:
De ordres, om vreemde Europeers van dese kust te weeren;
en zoo ook die, tegen het koopen en verkoopen van onderda„
„nen van zijne Majesteit den koning van Spanjen, door
de Mooren tot slaaven gemaakt; tegen het overvoeren
van een grooter dan het gepermitteerde getal slaaven
van particulieren met Comp=s scheepen en vaartuigen,
en teegen den aanbreng van meerder Chineesche passagiers
als het toegestaan getal van ses stuks, met ieder vaar„
„tuig, zijn alomme op en langs dese kust gerenoveert.
Na Jaarlijksche gewoonte is men tans weder bezig: De kruijkers waaden weder
de ordinaire
Orp. 8.
Kruissers in gereedheid te brengen, tegen
De Zee Roovers, en ter beveiliging van
Den Particulieren vaart en Handel; langs dese
kust, terwijl wij, om die aan te moedigen en te bevorderen, particulieren waart en
hier steeds zelfs al wwat mogelijk is doen, en ook de nordatien laten afgaan
sterke recommandatien, na de onderhorige strandcomp„
„toiren hebben laten afgaan, om particuliere te animee„
„ren tot een ruimen vervoer van producten, en insonder„
„heid van Rijst naar Batavia, maar door dien in de „dugt is dat het zelve zal ver„
Jongste
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National Archives / Archives South Holland, archive number 1.04.02, Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811), inventory number 3497, Heren Zeventien en kamer Amsterdam, INGEKOMEN STUKKEN UIT INDIË, Overgekomen brieven en papieren, Overgekomen brieven en papieren uit Indië aan de Heren XVII en de kamer Amsterdam, Overgekomen brieven en papieren uit Indië aan de Heren XVII en de kamer Amsterdam, 1778. Zevenentwintigste boek: Batavia's ingekomen brievenboek, deel VII: Java's Oostkust



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