Two pages, folio (450 x 290 mm) folded, backed with linen, signed by Sir Benjamin D'urban and Charles Cornwallis Michell, Surveyor General of the Cape of Good Hope, with a hand drawn and coloured map of the land, with several notations and divisions in various hands and dates, with D'urban's red wax seal which is cracked.
By His Excellency Major-General Sir BENJAMIN D'URBAN, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, of the Royal Guelphic Order of Hanover, and of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword, Colonel of His Majesty's 51st Regiment of Foot, Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Castle, Town, and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa, and of the Territories and Dependencies thereof, and Ordinary, and Vice Admiral of the same, Commanding the Forces, &c. &c. &c.
I do hereby Grant, on Perpetual Quitrent, unto Cornelius van der Watt, Jacobus Stefanus de Jager, Pieter Jacobus van Zyl, Jacobus Lodewicus de Jager, and Nicolaas Johannes van Zyl a Piece of One Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty Morgen of Land, situated in the District of Swellendam Fieldcornetcy of Vet River being the Loan Place "Zeekoegat" Bounded West to N.N.W. by the loan place Klip Hoogte E.N.E. to S by the ------place S by S.S.W. by S by D. Lombards Rust... Upkraal S.E. by P. le Roes & N.N.W. to E.N.E. by two Ranges of unmeasurable Mountains, as will further appear by the Diagram, framed by the Surveyor,—on condition, That all Roads and Thoroughfares running over the land -----— That said Land shall be liable (without Compensation to its proprietors) to have any Road made over it for the public benefit by order of Government— of his punctually paying, or causing to be paid, at the expiration of every twelfth month, from the date of these presents, unto the Civil Commissioner of the District, the Sum of One Pound & Sixteen Shillings and be bound (according to the existing Laws of this Settlement) to have the Boundaries properly traced out, and the Land brought into such a state of cultivation as it is capable of; the Land thus granted being further subject to all such Duties and Regulations, as either are already, or shall in future be, established respecting Lands granted under similar Tenure:
Given under my Hand and Seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, this 1st Day of January 1838.
By His Excellency's Command, Benjamin D'urban
Charles Cornwallis Michell.
