1 page handwritten title deed in ink with a red ink cancellation written at a 90 degree angle across the left hand side of the page. This side of the page is strengthened with tape on the edge. Embossed with a stamp of the Cape of Good Hope and two revenue stamps at the bottom of the right hand side of the page. It is signed by Henry Loch, F Schermbrucker and Leipoldt Marquard.
The document details a piece of land in Tamboerskloof on the southern slopes of Lion's Rump to be used for military purposes. The size of the land is 9 morgen, 318 sq roods 89 sq ft in exchange for a certain piece of Land known as the Powder Magazine which was granted in freehold in 1840.
The cancellation of this title deed is dated 11 April 1893.
Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch, GCB, GCMG, PC (23 May 1827 - 20 June 1900) was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator. In June 1889 he succeeded Sir Hercules Robinson as Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.
Frederick Schermbrucker (1832 - 1904) was a soldier and an influential parliamentarian of the Cape Colony. He was a strong pro-imperialist, one of the foremost supporters of Cecil Rhodes and an early leader of the Progressive Party of the Cape. He was the Commissioner Crown Lands and Public Works, in which capacity he signed this document.
Leopold Marquard, (surveying) 1826 -1897. He was surveyor-general of the Cape Colony, from 1889 -1892
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: Folio (320 x 200 mm)
