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reduce the nominal income of all the slave 
owners. The establishment of the "record book" 
also, (wherein owners were obliged to enter 
their own misdemeanors, and snch punishments 
as they inflicted on their slaves,) which was 
instituted about this time to try and find out 
how slaves were treated, was stoutly resisted 
by the Dutch. They assembled for this pur- 
pose in Cape Town, to the number of nearly 
4000 persons, and, marching up to the govern- 
ment-house, they stated to Sir Lowry Gole their 
determination to resist it; the governor pro- 
mised to intercede for them, and thus this was 
finally withdrawn. 
Again, when the abolition actually took place, 
and the government valuation appeared, (de- 
preciating as it was supposed to be in value, 
but which Value had been accepted by the 
boers) it stated that 35,745 slaves were found in 
the Cape Colony, and that a sum of £3,000,000 
would be required to compensate their owners 
for them, thus yielding their average value at 
£85 a head. The whole parliamentary grant 
made by England, as a compensation for the slave 
owners throughout the colonies, was, however, 
but £20,000,000, and when this was divided 
amongst them all, it was found that it could 
only be done proportionally , not by the valuation. 
Hence, instead of £3,000,000 as estimated, but 
