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Explanatory notes 1720-30:
According to the res. of 18.2.1730 the sum of fl 851,931 was still to be dispatched; above that another fl 300,000 was shared between the
chambers fordispatch. Thegold bars mentioned in 1728-29 and 1729-30 couldbe partiallypaid inducats; in 1726-27 Amsterdamwas
allowed to send the sum o f fl 600,000 o f silver bars in gold if necessary, and finally in 1724-25, 1726-27, 1727-28 and 1729-30 the chambers
were allowed to send silver in another form than in the specie stated.
Explanatory
notes 1730-40:
According to res. Heren 17 of 9.3.1741, fl 1,174,273 of the amount fixed in 1740 was still to be dispatched. The column pilaren/realen
refers
to the silver destined for China, next to 'pilaren' or 'kolomrealen ('pillardollars'). Mexicanen and markrealen are sometimes included as
well. In 1730-31 and 1731-32 in the division of the 'coarse silver' the possibility was left open for the chambers to replace part of the amount
mentioned under ducatoons (in 1731) and under silver bars (1732) with other silver specie (Mexicanen,
Sources:
silver bars o r ducatoons).
VOC 162,res.Heren 17,23.9.1720,9.10.1721,3.3,18.9and6.10.1722; VOC163,id.1.3and14.9.1723,26.2and16.11.1724, 1.3and
29.9.1725, 2.3, 18.7 and 12.9.1726; V O C 164, id. 19.2 and 23.8.1727, 9.3, 10.8 and 5.10.1728, 17.3, 23.8 and 25.11.1729, 18.2.1730; V O C
164, id. 21.8, 15.9 and 19 and 21.10.1730; V O C 165, id. 31.3, 17.8, 4 and 14.9 and 16.11.1731, 28.2, 19.8, 13 and 14.10.1732, 2.3, 2.9 and
27.10.1733, 12.3 and 30.8.1734, 23.8 and 25.10.1735; V O C 166, id. 20.3, 3.9 and 12.11.1736, 5.9 and 7.11.1737, 12.8, 7 and 12.11.1738,
1.9 and 1.11.1739; V O C 167, id. 16.8 and 23.9.1740; V O C 4370, factura Coxhorn (1728); V O C 4371, factura Duifje (1729).