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Records of the Cape Colony From February 1793
Records of the Cape Colony From February 1793 Author:Cape of Good Hope General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Printed for the government of the Cape Colony Subjects: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) History / Africa / General History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa Travel / Africa / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the... more » original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The list is of an additional collecting clerk at the market, an additional overseer at Buck Bay Farm, a church clerk at Hottentots Holland, and increases in the salaries of two schoolmasters and a few others, chiefly connected with the post office. [Original.] Letter from the Commissioners Of Enquiry to Lieutenant T. C. White. Uitenhage, 21th January 1824. Sir, -- We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., and as it is not probable that the pressure of business in this district, and the numerous claims similar to your own that we are prepared to examine in the district of Albany will enable us to enter upon the investigation that you have solicited at as early a period as you seem to wish, we have no difficulty in stating to you that although we declined the investigation of the misunderstanding that took place between His Excellency Lord Charles Somerset and yourself from an impression that it was a matter purely of . a personal nature, yet nothing has arisen out of it that will preclude us from proceeding in the investigation of your claims to a confirmation of the grant of land that was assigned to you, as well as to the augmentation that you have solicited, at as early a period as other engagements of a similar nature will permit. We have« less