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of choice wine. Of the other parts of the Cape district, 
wheat, barley, pulse, and wine. 
By a regulation of the Dutch Government, every house- 
holder was obliged annually to give in the number of his family, 
the amount of his live stock, and the produce of his farm. As 
this had been done in a loose and slovenly manner, and as the 
augmentation of ten thousand souls to its former population 
rendered it important to ascertain the means afforded by the 
colony for their subsistence, Lord Macartney required that, for 
the future, every man should give in his statement upon oath. 
When this new regulation was made, the Opgaaff, for that 
year, had already been taken in the usual way, but, on being 
repeated, the numbers, in some articles, were found to 
exceed those in tJie former account in a threefold pro- 
portion. 
The following is an abstract of the Opgaaff for the Cape 
district in the year 1797, when it was first required to be 
given in on oath. 
Population. 
Men 
Women 
Sons 
Daughters 
Servants 
1566 
1354 
U51 
1658 
232 
Christians 6261 
