Het Collegie van Boedelmeesters te Batavia was a colonial organisation in the Dutch East Indies. It was set up in 1640, to handle the inheritance of the Chinese and later, all the non-Christians. Based on Dutch sources, the present article sketches its development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, discussing its establishment, organisation, regulations, as well as important changes, and compare it with the re-established het Collegie van Boedelmeesters after 1828, as well as de Weeskamer te Batavia, to provide a better understanding of this organisation in the colonial context.