Per cent. Rix-d.
Suv.
Brought over
84 I3 5 274
0
To ditto
garrifon purveyor
2 - 3 l6
4l
To ditto
fecretary of the council of
polity
2 - 3x6
4 1
To the book-keeper, refident of Bouro
2 - 3x6
4l
To ditto
cafhier
2 - 3x6
41
To ditto
refideht of Manipa
I - I58
24
To ditto
fecretary of the council of
juftice
I - 158
2-J
To ditto
writer of the commercial
ledger
I X58
24
To ditto
ditto of the military ledger
I - 158
24
To the comptroller of equipment
2 - 316
4f
To four lieutenants and eleven enfigns, together
2 - 316
4 i
100 Rix-d. 15,805
O
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This method certainly gives a confiderable fupport to the fuperior fervants of theCompany, and it is not at the charge of the Company, for it is the natives who pay it,and who are, at the fame time, as it is laid, well fatisfied with it; for they wereformerly fo much defrauded in the weights of the cloves they furnilhed by the chiefsof the feveral fa&ories, that it is beyond belief, without the Company deriving anyadvantage from it; U'herefore the fupreme government, nor knowing how to do other-wife to prevent the extortion of their fervants, put the matter upon the prefent footing ;by which it is fettled, that of every bhar cloves furnilhed by the natives, only eightylhall be delivered to the Company, while the other twenty are to form the perquifitesof their fervants, who, however, are obliged to fell their cloves to the Company at thefame price paid to the natives. In addition to this, the council of juftice and the fifcalare ftri&ly enjoined to watch againft all injuftice or fraud on the receipt and weighingof the cloves coiledted, in order that any infraction of their regulations in this refpeftmay meet with an exemplary punilhment.
The council of juftice confilts of the fecond, as prefident, and fix members, whogenerally affemble every fortnight, in. a lower apartment of the ftadhoufe, or town-hall.All civil and criminal caufes are decided here; but in the former, an appeal can bemade to the council of juftice at Batavia, and the execution of fentences in the lattermay be fufpended by the governor; yet if he approve them, whether they condemnthe culprit to death, or to other corporal punilhment, they are carried into execution ;excepting, however, when the delinquent has the rank of merchant, and he is then fentup to Batavia, with the papers relative to the profecution, and copy of his fentence ?as is equally the cafe in all the other out-fa&ories.
Although by an exprefs command of the fupreme government, the governor heremay not intermeddle in any matters which come under the cognizance of the council ofjuftice, farther than to approve or fufpend their fentences in criminal cafes, yet fome ofthem arrogate to themfelves fo much power in this refpedt, that, in the fame manner asin the council of polity, they force a confirmation to their will, or bid open defianceto juftice and honefty, if the members of the council refufe to abet their iniquity.
How much foever juftice may be adminiftered here with feverity towards the infeiorciafies, it is a lamentable circumftance, and as worthy of abhorrence as it is notorious,■ that