Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope (Volume 2) Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope (Volume 2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...men might annually draw Rds. 2,000. Further, 25 young healthy fanners should be engaged, who have grown up on the veld, and be paid each 100 ducatoons annually, or Rds. 3,750. Further, 25 Bastard Hottentots, with a monthly wage of Rds. 5 or Rds. 1,500 per annum; also 25 Hottentots at Rds. 3 per month, or Rds. 900 per annum. Over all these men an officer should be appointed at f4,00o per annum, or Rds. 1,333.24; a second officer at Rds. 1,000, and two lower officers at Rds. 500 each, or Rds. 1,000, or a total outlay of Rds. 11,483.2.4 per annum. This, deducted from the General Fund, would still leave a balance of Rds. 12413.5.2. Out of that sum should be paid the necessary clothing for the Bastards, which should be of good, warm stuff. The necessary powder and lead should be supplied at the old price of 16 stivers per lb., but not at the present one of 4? The necessary foodstuffs also when the men are out in the veld. As there are many servants of the Company here, who have served their time, and are continually asking for burgher freedom, which they cannot get, because it is said that they would injure the burgher trade here at the Cape, they also might be engaged at 100 ducatoons per annum, and they might be used with the same success as the Military above mentioned. Further, three residents should be bound among themselves to provide one man with a horse, saddle, and bridle, as well as with a good gun, and this should be annually done by turns. Being divided into 3, 4, or more parties, the men shall be continually in the veld, and occupy all the known passes of the bushmen, capture the latter in every possible way, and follow them up, except in March, April, and May, when it is the horse-sickness season. During these three months the residents should each...