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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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De bevinding op de Boeken
van 177 2/3 niet ontfangen
zijnde,
versoekt men daarom, en
„jaren
„sluijt van de te Bancallang
heeft moeten intrekken,
den 14=e April 1777.
Jongste Jaaren verscheide particulieren haare vaartuigen
verlooren, en sommige de haare verkogt, afgevaaren en af„
„gelegt hebben, en weinig andere aangebouwt zijn of wor„
„den, het getal al zoo vermindert zijnde, dat tans hier te
Semarang, en genoegzaam op alle comptoiren gebrek
aan vaartuigen, en dus ook aan geleegendheid tot een
ruim transport van producten is, moogen wij onse
bedugting voor uwe Hoog Edelheden ook niet verbergen,
dat de inzonderheid voor Batavia zoo nuttige par„
„ticulieren vaart en handel van Java, van Jaar tot Jaar
afnemen zal, als particuliere niet te animeeren zijn,
of aangemoedigt worden, weder andere vaartuigen
aante bouwen.
De bevinding op de
Negotie Boeken van dit gouvernement, de anno 177 2/3
nevens uwer Hoog Edelheeden veel gerespecteerde van den
27. februari niet ontvangen, versoeken wij, dat ons als
ook van de volgende boek- nag mag gesonden worden, en zoo mede die van de vol„
„gende boekjaaren, dewelke uwE: Hoog Edelheden ons
hebben gelieven toetezeggen
om welke reeden men het de Omtrent de Ammunitie en wapenkamers goederen,
over devondene goederen die op de post Bancallang, na de opgave der gecommit„
„teerdens, dewelke hier de Negotie boeken van 177 7/6 tegen de
Rapporten van den generaalen opneem, altimo August:s
1776
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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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