Contains among other things: - Negotiations in monetary matters, 1703-1712 - candidature of Johann Adolf von Scherpenseel as commissioner to Amsterdam after the death of the resident Gerard Röver, 1712 - deputy of the government councillor Cramer in case of illness, 1700-1708 - retention of assets by the secretary Scherpenseel, 1711 - Entry of the Moscovite lieutenant Hans Jürg Pfahl into the Prussian military service, 1707 - List of weapons, works of art and animals brought by Hans Jürg Pfahl from East India (Japan and China), 1707 - Sending of pitch and tar, 1705 - Regulation of the succession of the commissioner van den Bent, 1704 - Payment of life annuities by the Commissioner of Amsterdam, Röver, 1704 - Ship with powder, saltpetre and sulphur sent from Amsterdam, 1702 - Death of the resident Karl Rudolf van Kuffelaer, 1702 - Arrest of the glassmaker Pallada, who was fleeing because of debts, 1699 - transmission of "East Indian Rarities", 1698 - regulation of the estate of the tax collector at the East Indian Company, Johann Teermanns, 1695 - title of the city of Amsterdam, 1690 - negotiations with the East Indian Company about bonds of city and country Groningen as well as African wells, 1690.;