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Introduction to the Resolutions
of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope
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Footnotes
The ten printed volumes of Resolutions covering the period from 1651 to 1743 have a large number of footnotes. Apart from the footnotes that originated from of a comparison between The Hague Copy and the Cape Resolutions , there are also references to documents mentioned in the footnotes. All these sources can be traced in the Cape Town Archives Repository where they may be consulted. Particulars regarding officials, who visited the Cape for longer or shorter periods of time, may be obtained from the National Archives under the reference Kol. Arch. (Koloniaal Archief) [Colonial Archives] accompanied by an inventory number. However, Koloniaal Archief is an outdated reference system of a certain section of the National Archives from which the VOC archives have separated and are now described in the archival inventory 1.04.02. All other inventory numbers can be found in the Cape Town Archives Repository. Biographical information in the footnotes was mainly obtained from a number of genealogical sources.
In approximately 1981 the C. volumes were restored, rebound and renumbered. The footnotes of the printed volumes also form part of the digital presentation. However, due to a lack of financial means it was not possible to annotate the remaining text (1744-1795). Note that the outdated inventory numbers were maintained throughout in the footnotes. In the archival inventory of the Council of Policy a complete table of comparison of previous and present volume numbers is provided.
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