Bond, William

To His Excellency The Right Honourable /
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset /
Governor of His Majesty’s Castle; Town and /
Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope /
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May it please Your Excellency /
The Memorial of William Bond humbly /
Sheweth /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist (who is by profes+sion a /
Spur and Bit Maker) purchased at a public Vendue (rather more /
than Six Months ago) a House and Erf in this Town, belonging to Mr /
David Barnes for the sum of Eight Hundred Rix Dollars, /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist was totally ignorant of the /
Colonial Laws respecting the Transfer of Landed property until this day /
when he was informed by Mr Willis (the Vendue Master for Albany) /
that he ought to have paid a certain duty within the space of Six /
Months after the s\d/ purchase _ That upon receiving the information, Memorialist /
immediated waited upon the Secretary, and tendered the amount of the Transfer /
but it was a few days (and a few days only) beyond the Six Months and /
it could not then be received without your Excellency’s permis+sion, and in /
consequence of which Memorialist was advised by Mr Cloete to forward a /
Memorial to your Lordship on the subject and therefore (being a poor man) /
Memorialist humbly prays that your Excellency will be graciously pleased /
to permit the authorities to receive the amount \as/ due within the first Six /
Months, and your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray. /
W\m/ Bond /
Grahams Town Nov\r/ 8\th/ 1824 /