Document: Answer to the application from the magistrates of Midwout for assistance to pay their minister

The director general and councilors give in reply: That they, the aforesaid schepens are completely authorized to make a binding contract with the aforesaid Do. Polhemius, provided that they also take care to pay whatever they promise him, and find the same in the community, because the Company has incurred large debts for many years without receiving any relief; also, that f700 has been advanced to Do. Polhemius on the Company’s account in the year and a half that he has been here, which they cannot approve or promise to be able to do in the following year because of present circumstances and the shortage in the Company’s treasury at this place, wherewith they had to govern themselves. Ady ut supra.