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| 1284.11.13 |
Grant Alphen, Randenburg, Snijdelwijk; Groesnwaard, Splinters Ambacht uten Waard the right to remove the sluice gate in the Gouwesluis at the Oude Rijn in Alphen as well as other rights associated with the Gouwe.
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| 1286.02.18 |
Copy of an original charter issued by Count Floris V confirming that the residents of the territory of Rijnland may construct and maintain a dam in the Spaarne, to be inspected annually by the dijkgraaf (the count's bailiff) and the heemraden and control fishing in the sluices. Further, the heemraden shall name their own replacements and the count shall confirm them by taking an oath of office within six weeks.
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| 1356.04.18 |
Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
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| 1361.01.04 |
Certified copy of a charter issued by Duke Albrecht giving permission to the residents of the polder on the eastside of the Gouwe at Alphen to construct a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel, with rules for the naming of heemraden for schouwing the canal.
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| 1385.04.01 |
A certified copy, made 3 January 1437, by Dirc van Wassenaar of a charter first issued in 1385 (original says 1384, but the court of Holland normally began the new year around Easter). The original charter regulated some differences between Hazerswoude and Leiden concerning jurisdiction over lands in Hazerswoude owned by Leidenaars, among other things.
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| 1400.12.28 |
Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.
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| 1401.05.19 |
Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
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| 1410.00.00 |
Authorized the local water board of Alphen east of the Gouwe to issue rules concerning the inspections they carry out and the judgments they make and to levy fines up to 3 lb.
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| 1416.02.29 |
Stipulation: how the ambacht of Zegwaard should carry out its inspections.
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| 1421.05.25 |
Regulates how the scout and local heemraden of Zoeterwoude are to carry out their inspections
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| 1421.05.25 |
Regulate how local communities should enforce prescribed maintenance work requirements.
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| 1434.06.29 |
Sets payment to heemraden and schout of Alkemade for their inspection work: 12 p and 2 sc., respectively
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| 1435.00.00 |
Regulate how local officials should inspect their roads (dikes) in Alphen.
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| 1435.00.00 |
Inspection of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) at Waddinxveen with agreement that it meets standards.
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| 1435.00.00 |
Heynric Jacopszoon to carry out inspections in Leimuiden, Vriesekoop, and Rijnsaterswoude with five heemraden instead of seven and to do so twice, once at the expense of the ambachten and the other according to custom.
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| 1436.02.28 |
Orders schout and heemraden of Hasertswoude to inspect Boudwijn Steens polder according to old custom.
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| 1437.05.07 |
Permission to Zoetermeer to build and inspect a canal (maintain to 8 feet wide) above the Groenenwech stretching from the Clootstael westward to the wetering.
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| 1437.06.24 |
Orders schout and heemraden of each ambacht to inspect all canals at appointed times to ensure they are kept clean and free to drain; to see to it that residents carry out their duties in this regard.
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| 1437.06.27 |
A further unspecified road is to be inspected.
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| 1437.09.16 |
Authorized a canal (waterscup) to be used by Schoot and Korteraar running from the Aar to the Oude Aar.
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| 1437.12.20 |
Regulate how Hazerswoude should inspect roads and canals.
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| 1437.12.20 |
Procedures: how the officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg are to carry out their inspections
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| 1438.05.06 |
Procedures: order the schout of Aalsmeer to inspect the road from Burggravenveen to the Rijsdrecht and to authorize bridges for the road if needed for water transport.
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| 1438.05.06 |
Procedures: order the schout of Vennep to inspect all roads during the month of May and at other times as is customary.
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| 1438.06.24 |
Schoot to carry out inspections with five kroosheemraden.
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| 1439.07.06 |
Procedures: the Zandsloot in Katwijk to be inspected in the customary manner.
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| 1441.06.28 |
Heemraden establish dates for their primary inspections: the first Tuesday after May Day, after St. John the Baptist's Day, after St. Bavo's Day, and after St. Peter's Day.
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| 1443.06.29 |
Instructions on how officials in Alkemade shall announce and conduct their inspections.
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| 1443.06.29 |
Officials in Heer Jacobswoude, Leimuiden, Rijnsaterswoude, and Vriesekoop shall announce and carry out their inspections in the same manner as specified for Alkemade.
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| 1443.10.01 |
Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
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| 1444.03.04 |
Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
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| 1444.05.05 |
Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
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| 1444.05.05 |
The schout of Koudekerk may inspect the new wetering and sluice in the Lage Waard section of Koudekerk until heemraden say otherwise.
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| 1445.05.04 |
Permission for Katwijk, Oegstgeest, Rietwijk, and Nieuwekerk to carry out inspections in same manner as was allowed for Zoeterwoude in 1435 [actually, 1421].
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| 1445.10.05 |
Permission for Schoot to perform inspections with 4 instead of 5 people because of lack of residents.
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| 1446.02.22 |
Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
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| 1446.05.03 |
Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
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| 1446.05.03 |
Permission for Woubrugge to carry out inspecticions as simply and cheaply as possible
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| 1446.06.28 |
Take testimony in a dispute between the residents of Alphen and those of Randenburg, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk concerning maintenance requirements in the Gouwesluis at Alphen, with a copy of an old charter from 1284 brought into play
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| 1446.08.24 |
Inspection of the Hoge Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk)
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| 1447.06.27 |
Permission for Benthuizen to carry out inspections from now on with 5 instead of 7 heemraden.
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| 1447.06.27 |
Permission for Zoetermeer to carry out inspections in same manner as does Zoeterwoude.
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| 1447.06.27 |
Permission for heemraden of Alphen to inspect the Lage dijk in a single inspection whenever they deem it necessary.
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| 1448.02.27 |
Permission for Zoeterwoude to inspect the Nieuwe Wetering and the Ommedijk from the Nieuwe Weterting to Meestgen Vranckenszoon in the same manner as they inspect other canals and roads.
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| 1448.05.06 |
Permission for the schout of Woude [Woubrugge] to schouw in the same manner as the schout of Alkemade does, and he is given a copy of the relevant keur from the book.
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| 1448.05.06 |
To schout of Zoeterwoude to henceforth inspect the Zwiet and the Zwette on the Friday instead of the Tuesday after St. John's day (June 24).
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| 1448.05.06 |
For schout of Zoeterwoude to inspect the sloot alongside the Zandweg between Leiden and Ter Wadding.
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| 1448.10.08 |
Permission for Gelderswoude to dig a new canal, 9 feet wide, on the north side of the Broekweg, running from the Kerklaan to the dam for the reservoir (boezemwater) of Zegwaard, to be inspected by the schout of Zoeterwoude along with the heemraden of Gelderswoude in the same manner as is done with other roads and canals.
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| 1449.05.06 |
For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
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| 1449.11.18 |
Everyone responsible for maintaining the Spaarndam between the Grotesluis and the Velserdijk must make it as high as it is in front of Dirc Havicxzoon's place within 14 days.
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| 1449.11.18 |
Permission for the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard to inspect the the section of the new canal built by Rotterdammers that runs through Zegwaard between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and Eggertsland.
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| 1450.05.05 |
Order the schout of Voorschoten to carry out the main and followup inspections of the Lage Rijndijk within Valkenburg and Wassenaar on 18 October and 17 March, and all other inspections according to customary practice.
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| 1450.06.30 |
Follows on a keur made on 5 May regarding cleaning of the Oude Rijn with houwen and layken, the long pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water; a followup inspection is ordered for the Friday after St. Bartholomew's Day (24 August).
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| 1450.06.30 |
Permission for Oegstgeest to schouw on the Wednesday instead of the Tuesday after May Day because of urgency of work on the land.
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| 1450.06.30 |
Schout, kroosheemraden, and community of Benthuizen ask heemraden of Rijnland to settle a question concerning the keeping of a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) and a ditch. Schout Jan van Heemstede, village lord, gave permission for it in the past, but now much of the land near it has disappeared and the nootweg may be next. Some want to keep it, the ditch, and an 8-foot buffer because they still keep dwellings there.
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| 1450.06.30 |
Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
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| 1450.06.30 |
Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
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| 1451.10.05 |
Permission for those along the Maredijk and the canal (de Peol?) behind Endegeest (Oegstgeest) to have the dijk and canal apportioned for maintenance work (verhoefslagen) by the schout
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| 1452.05.02 |
Permission for schout and village officials of Noordwijk and Noordwijkerhout to schouw from now on when they think best, without consulting with the villagers.
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| 1452.05.02 |
Permission for Noordwijk to inspect and maintain an abandoned road Noordwijk as other local access roads (lijtwegen).
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| 1452.10.17 |
Permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to schouw a canal in Zegwaard (runs through middle of the land and empties into another watering near the Hoefweg), with their schouw beginning at the land of Egghert Vranckenszoon to that of Meeuw Pieterszoon
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| 1452.10.24 |
A number of people oppose the permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for a canal in Zegwaard; the latter two respond that many others support them.
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| 1453.01.15 |
Permission for schout of Aalsmeer to schouw the Aalsmeer road and another road that has not been overseen in four years.
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| 1453.01.15 |
At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
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| 1453.05.08 |
Despite some opposition, Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon may continue schouw of a canal in Zegwaard.
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| 1453.05.08 |
Permission for schout of Hazerswoude, in his inspection and apportionment of maintenance responsibility for the two canals that replaced the Dirc Doedenwatering, to give partial remission to those still maintaining the Dirc Doedenwatering.
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| 1453.05.08 |
Permission for schout and heemraad of Hazerswoude to inspect and apportion maintenance on its roads and canals 8 or 14 days after publically announcing their intent with a follow up inspection 8 days later to ensure that all required work was completed.
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| 1453.10.17 |
Permission for schout and local heemraden of Alphen to order the repair and closing of kaden which often have been left to lie open during the winter.
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| 1454.02.26 |
Permission for schout of Zoeterwoude with his heemraden to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for the Kerkweg between the Weipoort and the church of Zoeterwoude, with the size of fines the same as on the other roads in Zoeterwoude.
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| 1455.05.06 |
Permission for Pieter van Bossche of Hazerswoude (and bode of Rijnland) to move a kade that runs from the Gelderswoudse brug to the wetering; they prefer it to lie along the wetering. Afterwards, the schout will inspect it like other roads and canals.
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| 1455.10.07 |
Permission for Hazerswoude to dig a canal 9 feet wide from the land of Mees Vranckenszoon to that of Jan Aelwijnszoon and then further along the Ommedijk. Thereafter, the schout shall inspect it like all other roads and canals.
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| 1456.05.04 |
Instruct Noordwijk and Noordwijkerhout to treat the lijtschouw (initial inspection, in which work to be carried out is indicated) they usually hold in the summer as an afterschouw (final inspection, in which work that is not completed can be put out to contract at the expense of those who were responsible for the work) instead and to carry it out by 4 July.
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| 1457.03.01 |
Permission for Zegwaard to inspect and maintain roads and canals in that same manner as Hazerswoude does.
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| 1457.03.01 |
Permission for Benthuizen to inspect and maintain roads and canals in the same manner as Hazerswoude does. Two months later, at the May schouw, this item was crossed out with the mention that from thence onward their own, old manner of schouwen is restored.
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| 1457.03.01 |
Permission for the smaldorpen (small villages: Groenswaard, Boskoop, Snijdelwijk, and Randenburg) to collapse their two schouwen into one to be held whenever deemed necessary, as long as it was announced in all the churches 14 days in advance.
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| 1457.03.17 |
Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.
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| 1457.05.03 |
If the dijkgraaf is absent from a schouw- or rechtsdag, the heemraden will appoint one of their own who is rentmeester to be dijkgraaf, and if the rentmeester also is absent, those present will cast lots to choose a dijkgraaf.
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| 1458.10.03 |
Permission for Ter Aar to schouw with five instead of seven heemraden.
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| 1458.10.03 |
Permission for Esselijkerwoude to inspect and prescribe maintenance work in the same manner as Zoeterwoude does.
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| 1459.05.08 |
Order an inspection of the Mare between the edge of Leiden and Warmond on the first Wednesday after Saint Martin's translatio (8 July) and the apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
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| 1459.06.26 |
Permission for Voorschoten to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility in the same manner and against the same fines as does Hazerswoude, as written in the hoogheemraad's book..
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| 1460.02.26 |
Order the restoration of the Rijndijk along both banks to be maintained at minimally 18 roede feet wide, and all plantings that have impinged on this width must be removed. Reiteration of earlier orders.
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| 1460.02.26 |
Reemphasize the need to remove obstructions or impingements on the Rijn at Leiden.
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| 1460.02.26 |
Order repairs to the Rijndijk embankment that has been badly damaged by illegal wagon traffic.
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| 1461.10.13 |
Permission for Koudekerk to schouw the entire ambacht from now on in the same manner as was approved for Hazerswoude in the past (1438).
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| 1462.07.06 |
Permission for Ter Aar and Schoot to inspect and assign maintenance responsibilities 14 days after it was announced in the three nearest churches.
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| 1462.07.06 |
Permission for Leiderdorp to schouw in the same manner as Hazerswoude and Zoeterwoude
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| 1463.03.01 |
Standardize how schouten and local heemraden are to conduct their business in Rijnland, including inspection procedures, choosing of heemraden, and compensation for expenses.
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| 1464.06.27 |
Order that the Oude Rijn must be inspected east of Leiden as well where, until then, none had been done: must be cleaned on both sides as specified for sections currrently subjected to inspections. In particular, the north bank from Heimansbrug to the Gouwesluis must be maintained as it now is with vegetation sufficient to prevent erosion of banks by ship wakes.
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| 1465.03.12 |
Permission for schout and kroosheemraden of Benthuizen to decide the extent of the schouw (inspections and assignment of maintenance responsibilities) of all the canals and waterways within their ambacht and to do so in such a manner that the entire ambacht will benefit.
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| 1465.07.23 |
Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenswaard to schouw (inspect and maintain) the Backwetering for the benefit of the common good.
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| 1465.07.23 |
Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenwaard to the schouw (inspect and maintain) the area canals between the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering for the benefit of the land. Along the east side of the cross canals that will connect the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering, they are to provide a lijdweg or path one rod wide.
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| 1467.06.30 |
Dijkgraaf and heemraden concluded that the Oude Rijn, between the Heimansbrug and the Gouwesluis, probably doesn't need to be inspected by them any longer.
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| 1469.06.27 |
Permission for Benthuizen to dig a canal 8 feet wide (7 feet wide at bridge heads) beginning near the koster's (sextons's) house and extending to the Hemsloot. Those along the canal are responsible for its upkeep. The schout and heemraden of Benthuizen will schouw (inspect and maintain) it like all other roads and canals in the ambacht.
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| 1471.10.08 |
Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc.
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| 1479.03.02 |
Resolve to enforce penalities for those not promptly performing their prescribed maintenance work on the Hogendijk (Hoge Zeedijk; Spaarndammerdijk) between Amsterdam and Spaarndam.
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| 1479.03.02 |
Resolve to enforce penalities for those not promptly performing their prescribed maintenance work along the Oude Rijn (Hoge Rijndijk).
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| 1482.07.02 |
Permission for heemraden of Hillegom and Lisse, who now schouw (inspect and maintain) at their own cost to henceforth do three annual schouws and in return receive 1 lb. per schouw -- on 10 July 1498 this apparently was amended to four shouwen per year.
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| 1483.07.15 |
Authorize a canal in Warmond from the deep Lede to the Zijl, 12 feet wide at water's edge, with additional specifications concerning its use and prescribed maintenance work.
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| 1483.07.15 |
Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.
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| 1564.01.25 |
Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.
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