`" VOORUITZIGT."

or the Diamonds or Minerals therein or thereon, shall be No. 7-1875. entered into by the said Alfred Ebden.

4. His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly undertakes that this Sale and Purchase of "Vooruitzigt," and payment thereof, shall without delay be ratified, confirmed and provided for by local Ordinance to be passed by the Legislative Council of Griqualand West, and sanctioned by His Excellency.

5. The Purchase price shall be paid by Debentures of the Government of Griqualand West, bearing interest from the first day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly at the Treasury in Griqualand West, or in Cape Town or London, which Debentures shall be redeemed in equal proportionate amounts yearly within the next eight years unless redeemed earlier as hereinafter stipulated.

6. The proceeds of all sales of plots of ground or erven in the town of Kimberley, and of any other portion of Vooruitzigt" sold by the Government, shall be reserved for and appropriated towards the redemption of the Debentures according to their numerical order, beginning with Number 1 and continuing in regular succession so far as the moneys received will go.

7. Government to enter into possession of "Vooruitzigt on the First day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five or earlier if practicable, Mr. Ebden hereby assenting thereto.

8. This deed of sale and purchase is, however, to be subject to the final approval of the Right Honourable Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, such approval to be formally communicated to Mr. Ebden or his representative in this Colony by or before the Thirtieth of September, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five.

9. In case such approval shall not be so given, and communicated or unless the Government of Griqualand West shall, on the refusal of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies to sanction the said sale and purchase, pay or cause to be paid within three calendar months after the receipt of information that such sale and purchase has not been sanctioned, to the said Alfred Ebden or his representative in this Colony the balance of the purchase price of the said Farm "Vooruitzigt" as agreed on, with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum to date of payment, this agreement shall be considered as lapsed and terminated, and the Government will thereupon account to Mr. Ebden for the proceeds of all sales aforesaid and of rents, revenues, and licences received by them in the interim, undertaking to keep an account and reckoning thereof, under deduction, however,

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of all necessary disbursements and expenses in or about the collection thereof.

10. The legal proceedings now pending before the High Court of Griqualand West, between the Government and Mr. Ebden, and all other legal proceedings and litigation on both sides, in reference to the said Farm, or to any of the matters and things aforesaid, shall be left in abeyance until this agreement shall be finally approved of as aforesaid, and then in such case shall be mutually withdrawn and abandoned.

The said Sale and Purchase when so approved shall also be an absolute estoppel to all or any action or actions, suit or suits, or other proceedings now pending between Alfred Ebden and any other person or persons, or party or parties whomsoever, in reference to the said Farm, or to any Diamonds, Minerals, Property, in or upon the same, and to any action or proceeding in which judgment may have been pronounced but not carried into execution, and to all litigation on the part of Mr. Ebden, to the said Farm, and all actions, suits, or judgments shall be left in abeyance, until the said Sale and Purchase shall be approved.

In witness whereof, Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. Governor of Griqualand West, and Alfred Ebden, by his Agent, John Xavier Merriman, have hereunto set their hands, and seals, at Cape Town, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, this Thirty-first day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five, in presence of subscribed Wit

I, the undersigned, Alfred Ebden, of Port Elizabeth, Merchant, Registered Proprietor of the Diamond Estate Vooruitzigt," situate in the Territory of Griqualand West, do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint John X. Merriman, Esq., M.L.A., of Cape Town, to be my Attorney and Agent for the purpose of effecting a sale of the said Estate to His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., acting for and on behalf of the Government of Griqualand West, for the sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds

(£100,000), with full power and authority to act for me and No. 8-1875. --
on my behalf in the premises, hereby ratifying and confirm-
ing and hereby engaging at all times to ratify and confirm
any agreement of sale, that may be or may have been executed
by my said Attorney to give proper legal effect thereto.

Dated at Port Elizabeth, this 31st day of May, 1875.
(Signed)
ALFRED EBDEN,

Witnesses:

Registered Proprietor of "Vooruitzigt.”

(W. S. KINGSMILL.

Signed: { A. E. PICKERING.

We, the undersigned, Dunell, Ebden & Co., the duly appointed administrators of the above Estate, hereby ratify and approve the within Power of Attorney granted by the said Alfred Ebden, in favour of the said John X. Merriman, M.L.A.

(Signed) DUNELL, EBDEN & Co., Administrators. As Witnesses:

Ordinance for applying a Sum not exceeding Sixty-seven
Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-four Pounds
Sterling (£67,824) for the Service of the Year 1875.

WHEREAS the Expenditure required for the Service of

the Government of this Province for the Year 1875 has been estimated at the Sum of Sixty-seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-four Pounds Sterling:

Be it enacted by the Governor of this Province, with the advice and consent of the Council thereof, that a sum not exceeding Sixty-seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Twentyfour Pounds Sterling be charged upon the Revenue of this Province for the Year 1875, and applied in the manner following, that is to say :

For the Expenditure of a Civil Establishment a sum not exceeding Thirteen Thousand Six Hundred and Twentytwo Pounds.

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For the Expenditure of the Judicial Establishment a sum not exceeding Seven Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-eight Pounds.

For the Expenditure of the Medical Establishment a sum not exceeding Nine Hundred and Thirty-eight Pounds. For the expenditure of the Aborigines Establishment a sum

not exceeding Nine Hundred and Forty-four Pounds. For the Expenditure of the Mining Establishment a sum not exceeding Four Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Pounds.

For the Expenditure of the Educational Establishment a sum
not exceeding One Hundred and Twenty-five Pounds.
For the Expenditure of the Gaols Establishment a sum not
exceeding Nine Hundred and Forty-two Pounds.
For the Expenditure on Account of Police a sum not ex-
ceeding Twelve Thousand Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Convict Constables a sum
not exceeding Fifteen Hundred Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Convicts a sum not exceeding Five Thousand Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Hospitals, a sum not exceeding Three Thousand Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Conveyance of Mails,
a sum not exceeding Four Thousand Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Administration of Jus-
tice, a sum not exceeding Two Thousand Pounds.
For the Expenditure on Account of Rent, a sum not ex-
ceeding Twelve Hundred Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Office Contingencies, a
sum not exceeding Two Thousand Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Transport, a sum not exceeding Twelve Hundred and Fifty Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Education, viz. :-Grants in Aid of Schools, &c., a sum not exceeding Fourteen Hundred and Twenty-five Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Aborigines, a sum not exceeding One Thousand Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Special Services, a sum not exceeding Fifteen Hundred Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Revenue Services, a sum not exceeding Two Hundred Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Sums Refunded, a sum not exceeding Two Hundred Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Interest, a sum not exceeding Two Thousand Five Hundred Pounds.

For the Expenditure on Account of Miscellaneous Services, a sum not exceeding Seven Hundred Pounds.

Amounting in the whole to Sixty-seven Thousand Eight No. 8-1875.
Hundred and Twenty-four Pounds, as detailed in the
Schedule hereunto annexed.