Obligation to each household to detach a man to be present at Monday the 28th of this month [September 1812] at 1 pm, promptly and without failing to do so, at the Voorthuis bridge in order to clean the canal up until the Woolthuis bridge, in order to provisionally arrange the proper and unhindered current of the small leat; anyone failing to detach a man fit to perform this labour will be fined at 1 gulden, to be collected by the [bijzitters] from those who failed to do so, each assessor for his own quarter, these fines immediately to be spent to deepen and repair this small leat even better.