Bond, William

To His Excellency The Right Honourable
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset
Governor of His Majestys Castle; Town and
Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c
May it please Your Excellency
The Memorial of William Bond humbly
Sheweth
That your Excellencys Memorialist (who is by profession 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 Excellencys 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 sd 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 Excellencys permission, 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.
Wm Bond
Grahams Town Novr 8 1824