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the land of the Malabar Moetia, six rods and six feet, course 

 N. and S., besides deep on the North East side, bordering on the 

 property of the said Omstee, ten rods and eight feet, course E. 

 8. E. and W. N. W., and on the south side bordering on the land 

 of the widow of the book-keeper, Martinus van Toulon, thirteen 

 rods and three feet, the same course as on the South West side, all 

 in Rhineland measure, conformable to the surveyor's new plan of 

 10th August of this year, and that he may take legal possession 

 of the said unoccupied ground and let it out, or mortgage it, or do 

 with it whatever he likes, provided, however, that he will always 

 remain subjected to all the taxes and duties already put on land 

 and properties by the high authorities, or which might still, be 

 ordered in the future. 



Thus done and given in the Fortress of Malacca the Au- 

 gust, 1776. 



(Signed) Jan CRANS. 



Seal of the By Order of His Honourable the Gov- 



East India Company ernor and Director of this place and of 

 in the Fortress of Malacca and of the board 



red sealing-wax. of Administration. 



(Signed) J. F. FABRIENIS, 



Secretary. 



Pieter Gerardus de Bruyn, Governor and Director of this 

 place and of the Foi trees of Malacca and its whole jurisdiction, 

 makes known that, with the consent of the Board of Administration 

 and with the object of improving this place and with other good 

 purposes, I have transferred to and bestowed upon the Surgeon- 

 Major of this Fortress, Mr. Jon an Hkndrtk Werth, a certain 

 piece of ground, situated within this Fortress, opposite the " Mid- 

 tlelpunt" (centrum), between two other cultivated properties of 

 the same owner, broad in front along the Public Road, five roods 

 four feet and ten inches, course N. N. E. or S. S. "W., and behind 

 St. Paul's Hill, the same breadth and course as on the South East 

 side, besides deep on the North side and on the South side, twenty 

 roods, course W. N. W. or E. S. E., all in Rhineland measure, 

 according to the plan of the sworn Surveyor, Hekmaus Jelgerhuis 

 dated 30th March last, to take henceforward legal possession of 



