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verified of his existence if it should appear that he is still alive and residing within the limits of your Government or of his Death if it should prove that he died in the Colony. I have &c.

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Letter from HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE., to C. GRIFFITH, ESQRE.

DOWNING STREET, 23rd March 1821.

SIR, I have received the directions of Earl Bathurst to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd of October last, enclosing a joint Petition from your Brother and yourself praying that two small grazing farms of unappropriated Government Lands at the Cape may be granted to you on perpetual Quit rent; and I am desired to acquaint you in reply that it does not at present appear advisable to Lord Bathurst to authorise the alienation of the land in question which forms a part of the Domain of the Crown.

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Letter from HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE., to LORD
CHARLES SOMERSET.

DOWNING STREET, 23rd March 1821.

MY LORD, I do myself the honour to acquaint your Lordship by direction of Earl Bathurst that the Society for the Propagation. of the Gospel in Foreign parts have adopted the Suggestion contained in your Lordship's letter of the 14th of February last, and have consented to appropriate in aid of the Expence attending the erection of a Church at Graham's Town the Grant of £500 which they voted last year towards a similar object at Cape Town.

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Letter from SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN to EARL BATHURST.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 26th March 1821.

MY LORD, I have the honour to enclose an application to your Lordship from Lieutenants Charles and Valentine Griffith of the Royal Marines, praying that Your Lordship will sanction their obtaining possession (on the tenure of Perpetual Quitrent at a reduced rent) of a Government Farm here of which they have a temporary occupancy on Lease at a Rent of Five Hundred and thirty rixdollars per annum.

These gentlemen came out as Heads of a Party of Settlers and were offered a location at the Zonder End River about fifty miles from hence in a situation peculiarly central, but after having viewed the lands they did not approve of them, and declined taking up their abode upon them; it was then proposed to convey them to the Zuureveld or Albany District where the largest proportion of Settlers is located, but this they also declined and in lieu thereof made a private agreement for the remainder of the Lease, of which twenty-four years are unexpired, of the Old Post Farm in the Groene Kloof District.

These gentlemen set forth to your Lordship the long services of their family, which your Lordship will best appreciate, without comment froin me, but your Lordship will in the decision of this application naturally consider, whether under the circumstances of their case, these gentlemen, who have refused two locations, have any well founded claims on this Colony altho' they have received no lands as Settlers, and whether it be advisable to establish a precedent of reducing the permanent Land Revenue of this Colony. I have &c.

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Memorial of MESSRS. CLARINGBOULD AND DARBY to the
EARL OF LIVERPOOL.

To the Right Honorable the Earl of Liverpool, &c. &ca.

May it please your Lordship

We the undersigned being the persons permitted by a letter of leave from His Excellency the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope to return to England for the purpose of procuring articles necessary for the better establishment of a Fishery by the Deal Party of Settlers located at Algoa Bay under Mr. Charles Gurney, and respecting which we had the honor of addressing your Lordship a few days ago through the medium of the Reverend Mr. Pennington having understood that the ship Sappho, Captain Lamb, is taken up by Government as a Transport for the purpose of conveying stores and passengers to the Cape of Good Hope and is now loading at Deptford Dockyard and expected to sail in about twelve days, beg leave to solicit through your Lordship the favor of a passage for ourselves and the boats and articles we have purchased for our Fishery by the said ship free of freight.

We beg leave most respectfully to represent to your Lordship that in purchasing the articles we came to England for we have expended the greater part of our capital and that we should consequently feel most severely the additional expence to which we should be subject were we to convey them and ourselves to the Cape in a merchant ship liable to freight, and as our object has the approval of His Excellency the Governor and we trust will be deemed by your Lordship to be a truly laudable one, we humbly presume to hope that your Lordship will be pleased to enable us to carry it into effect by granting us permission to proceed with our said articles in the manner before requested. And as in duty bound, We will ever pray.

(Signed)

RICHARD CLARINGBOULD,
JOHN DARBY.

DEAL, 30th March 1821.

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Proclamation by SIR RUFANE SHAWE DONKIN.

Whereas the Landdrost and Heemraden of the District of Stellenbosch have represented to me, the Inadequacy of the Ordinary Revenue of their District, to meet the great Expences to which they have unavoidably been subjected, and by which a considerable Arrear has occurred, which it is now necessary to provide for; and whereas the Landdrost of the aforesaid District has requested, that the Board be allowed to levy at the ensuing Opgaaf, besides the ordinary Quotas, as already authorized, the further sum of One Rixdollar per Head, for every Slave, Male or Female, above the age of 10 years, and Four Skillings, or a Half Rixdollar, for every Male or Female Slave, under that Age, from the respective Proprietors thereof, Inhabitants of that District.

By Virtue, therefore, of the Power and Authority in me vested, and in furtherance of the Provisions of the Proclamation of the 1st April, 1814, which regulated the Mode by which the Assessments for meeting the Expenditure of the several Country Districts should be made, I do hereby empower, authorize, and direct the Landdrost and Heemraden of the District of Stellenbosch, to levy at the ensuing Opgaaf of the years 1821 and 1822, from the Proprietors of Slaves in that District, the several Sums of One Rixdollar per Head, for each Slave of, or above, the Age of 10 Years, and Four Skillings, or a Half Rixdollar, for every Slave under that Age; and I do hereby further empower the aforesaid Landdrost, to sue for, and recover in the usual manner, any and every Default of Payment in the Premises, after regular Demand shall have been made for the same.

And that no Person may plead ignorance hereof, this shall be published and affixed in the usual manner.

God save the King!

Given under my Hand and Seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, this 30th day of March, 1821.

XIII.

(Signed)

R. S. DONKIN.

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Letter from HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE., to
LORD CHARLES SOMERSET.

DOWNING STREET, 31 March 1821.

MY LORD, I do myself the honour to transmit to your Lordship by the desire of Earl Bathurst for your Information and Guidance, the accompanying copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to one which I addressed to him on the 28th of November on the subject of the application made on the part of the Comptroller of Customs at the Cape to receive the proportion assigned by the Laws of the Colony to the seizing officer, of the Gunpowder seized by him in consequence of the irregular and illegal mode of its being landed by the Ordnance Office. I have &c.

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Letter from the Navy Board to HENRY GOULBURN, ESQRE.

NAVY OFFICE, 3rd April 1821.

SIR,-With reference to our letter of the 22nd ultimo, we acquaint you, for the information of Earl Bathurst, that the persons undermentioned may embark on board the Sappho, 360 tons, at Deptford, on Saturday next the 7th instant, for passages to the Cape of Good Hope, viz.

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Charlotte Forbes and her 4 children. We are &c.

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