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money. After the purchase of a suitable house, they found 
there was nothing left to afford even a moderate salary for a 
Latin master ; and the clergy of the Cape, who are the only 
fit persons to take upon them the important task of instruct- 
ing youth, are already too well provided for by Government 
to engage in so laborious an employ. 
The amount of the funds belonging to the Reformed Church 
in Cape Town, in the year 1798, was, Rd. 110,842 1 2 or 
22,168/. 8s. 8d., and the subsistence granted to the poor was 
Rd. 5564 2 or 1112/. 175. The funds of the Lutheran Church 
were Rd. 74,148 2 2 or 14,829/. 13s. 2d., and the relief 
granted to the poor Rd. 972 2 2 or 194/. 9s. 2d. 
IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED. 
Before any considerable degree of improvement can be ex- 
pected in those parts of the country, not very distant from the 
Cape, it will be necessary, by some means or other, to increase 
the quantity and to reduce the present enormous price of la- 
bor. The first step towards the attainment of these objects 
is the complete prohibition of the importation of slaves under 
any pretext whatsoever; for, until such a measure shall be 
adopted, the increase of the price of labor is sure to keep 
pace with the encreased population. The number of slaves 
that are already in the colony, and the number of Hottentots 
unemployed for want of due encouragement, render any im- 
portations of the former wholly unnecessary. But supposing 
the demand for labor was greater than they could supply, a 
