1678 Expenses

In 1678, Jacob vander Burgh was the City's treasurer. He started the year with 81,500 guilders and was the first treasurer whose Reekening or account book balanced revenue and expenses. The following year, vander Burgh was treasurer again, and reported beginning the year with 95,618 guilders. Again, he balanced revenue and expenses, a tradition that would continue.

The table below shows theheadings and major subheadings that had totals and sub-totals in the Expenses section of the Rekeningbouck, the treasurer's account book. Some of them are very long and list the sub-subheadings; they have been shortened (though not re-worded) for this table. These section headings in the account books remained almost identical for years 1658 through 1681. The revenue/expense total of 630,060 guilders for 1678 was closer to the more common 400-500,000 guilders than to the excesses of 1674 and 1675, when it was almost triple that level, peaking at a little over 1.1 million guilders in 1675.

Omitted are the individual expense items and their names, dates, and descriptions. The page numbers give a sense of the relative size of each section. The Expenses section of every volume was twice as large as the Revenue section because of all the people who received payments on annuities that they had bought over the years. In 1678, the list of those payments went from page 185 to 334, well over half the book.

This table omits the stuivers and pennies so the somma grossas are a guilder or two larger than the sum of their sub-totals.

Expenses
Uitgeeff

Two numbers jump out of this table.

The 21,949 for salaries was broken down but not separately totaled. Leeuwenhoek's salary was listed with the other camerbewaarders in the third sub-section.

by order of the mayors

Pie chart showing the expenses share for 1678
redeemable annuities 6%
salaries 4%
payment for services 65%