GRAAFF REINET 1825

1 page document with details of the land transaction written in ink. The grant is on watermarked paper - Hope seated in a chariot. The red wax seal under the date is unbroken, a very good copy.

Land grant signed by Sir Charles Somerset and dated 25 May 1825 for a property in Graaff Reinet which was sold to Johannes Stephanus Olivier. The details of the transaction are mentioned in this document and include lots no 4 in Donkin Street and Lot no 6 in Stockenstroom Street. The amount paid was 900 Rixdollars.

WHEREAS the Landdrost and Heemraden of Graaff Reinet under the Authority of Government, have sold a certain number of Erven, or Lots of Ground, situated in the Town: I do hereby cede and transfer to Johannes Stephanus Olivier J. Son Jr. one of the said Erven, or Lots, situate as a lot in Donkin Street marked No: 5 — Measuring Five hundred & Fifty five Square Roods and Seventy two d.º Feet — On the following Conditions — That a House of at least thirty Feet by fifteen be built upon the same on the Line of the Street, within two Years from the date hereof, and that the Lot be properly fenced in, — Said Erf extending N. to Lot No: 4 — W. to Donkin Street S. to Lot No: 6 and E. to Stockenstrom Street.

Lord Charles Henry Somerset PC (12 December 1767 - 18 February 1831), born in Badminton, England, was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator. He was governor of the Cape Colony, from 1814 to 1826.