Jacob van der Meersch
Jacob van der Meersch was governor of Mauritius from 1644 to 1648. He was succeeded by Reinier Por. Before van der Meersch, the governor was Adriaen van der Stel.
During his time as governor, progress was made in the domain of wood-cutting and a 5 kilometer road was built.[1]
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gollark: Though presumably they could *technically* just OCR the details off the card?
gollark: Well, hardware reader systems, I think.
gollark: "We'll make it so that to pay for things at all, you need to give someone this information, and they can withdraw any amount of money if you have that, but it's totally fine because it's illegal to misuse that stuff!"
gollark: How were they not immediately fired?
gollark: Whoever designed that system is <:bees:724389994663247974>.
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