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Between 14 April 1777 and earlier dates, officials examined goods stored at Banjoewangie and Djember in 1776. After comparing reports from Surabaya employees with the account books, and following the order from 19 November of the previous year, they discovered that the reported surplus of goods was not real. The committee had compared the Bancallang inventory report twice - once separately and once as part of the general Surabaya report, which already included Bancallang goods since that post fell under Surabaya. Because of this double counting, the authorities withdrew their order to confiscate the supposed surplus goods for the benefit of the Company. However, they instructed employees in the eastern region to keep separate accounts for Bancallang in the Surabaya books to prevent similar mistakes. Further examination of ammunition and weapons at Banjoewangie and Djember on late August 1776 showed that differences between inventory reports and the books were only due to incorrect descriptions of caliber for some items and wrong names for other goods. The only actual shortage was 40 pieces of round ammunition of ½ pound, which had been fired at the Contongers in 1771 and 1772. The authorities approved corrections to record goods under their proper names in future inventories and ordered the missing 40 pieces of ½ pound round ammunition to be written off against the Balemboang Expedition account. Orders were given to send empty gunpowder barrels back to Batavia at every opportunity, following the resolution of 27 August 1776. Regarding financial matters, officials still awaited the accounting for reduced income and capital advance related to 100 defective 2½ inch swivel guns brought from Paccalongang to the main location on the ship Vlissingen in the previous year, to be charged to resident Bruistens. Meanwhile, the Surabaya employees paid compensation of 408 guilders and 2 stuivers for 31,733⅓ pounds of rice, calculated as 1 7/15 percent of the 6 1/1 percent dust found in 500 koyangs of rice loaded onto the ship Kroonenburg for Batavia in 1776, which resident van Hogendorp from Rembang also handled.

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den 14=e April A„o 177.
En wat vervolgens des we„
„gen is gelast.
zoo mede ook omtrent de te
Banjoewangie en Djember
goederen
1776: geconfronteert hebben, en het genoteerde bij onse Reso„
„lutie van den 19: November anno passato, over of meer
waaren, als bij de boeken bekent stonden, door de soura„
„baijasche bediendens, het tegendeel aangetoont, en vervolgens
ook hier bij nadere extaminatie ontwaard weesende, dat,
wijl de gecommitteerdens voormeld, eens het berigt van
den opneem te Bancallang op zig zelfs, en naderhand
het generaale Rapport van den opneem te sourabaija,
waar bij de goederen te Bancallang, om dat die post onder
sourabaija liep, reeds ingetrokken waaren, geconfronteert had„
„den, de opgegeeven meerderheit alzoo niet weesentlijk was„
hebben wij onse ordre, om die goederen ten voordeele van de
Maatschappije intenemen, moeten intrekken, dog teffens, de
bediendens in den oosthoek gelast, om ter voorkoming van
zoortgelijke misvattingen, de post Bancallang voortaan een
aparte reekening te geeven bij de sourabaijasche boeken.
In zelvdervoegen door die bediendens aangetoont, en hier bij nadere„
examinatie ook voldoende gebleeken weesende, dat de disferen,„ over en te kort bevondene
„ten tusschen de Rapporten van den opneem der Amunitie
en wapen goederen te Banjoewangie en te Djember Ult=o Augus„
„tus 1776. en de Restanten bij de boeken, alleen bestonden in
de abusive opgave van het Caliber van eenige, en de
verkeerde benaming van andere goederen, en dat daar
wezentlijk niet meer manqueerden dan 40 pees rond„
„scherp
34
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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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