LAND LAWS. 191 



munity spread farther inland, and stock-raising became 

 the main industry of the people, the size of these 

 places came to be about 3,000 morgen, or a little 

 over 6,000 acres, which is recognised at the present 

 day as the size of a full farm. This went on 

 and on, the boundaries of the colony always extend- 

 ing north and east. In 1813, seven years after the 

 final establishment of the British Government in the 

 colony, and the boundary eastward had been fixed at 

 the Great Fish River, Governor Sir Jolm Cradock 

 invited all possessors of ^' loan places" to submit their 

 claims and receive title-deeds for the land, to be known 

 under the name of "Perpetual Quitrent Tenure." 

 Previous to this (and even since), small portions of land 

 had been granted as " Freehold," but the great mass of 

 the land is held under the above-mentioned " Quitrent 

 Tenure," which only differs from " Freehold " in that 

 the Government reserve their rights to precious stones, 

 gold and silver, and the right of making and repairino 

 roads, and of taking materials for that purpose without 

 compensating the owner, together with the perpetual 

 annual payment of £4 16s. In lands granted under 

 this tenure, subsequent to this date, the reservation was 

 made that " no slaves should be employed on the land," 

 and that " the land should be brought into such a state 

 of cultivation as it was capable of;" the first of these 



