Aptitude training centre; area - native hostel; details - gate piers to No.3 Shaft compound; entrance & main road to mine; entrance & monolith; entrance planting plan; entrance to mine past No.3 Shaft; Fraser's Stores; garden for non-European hospital; garden layout for manager's house; garden layout for No.3 Shaft; garden layout for single quarters and house for Matron and 3 nurses; general & assay offices - layout of roads, detail of front entrance, details of terrace wall & steps, proposed layout of gardens; landscape scheme for Matron & nurses' home; manager's garden - planting plan for large shrub border, planting plan of rose garden, swimming pool & change house; mine village - out of step designs; native married quarters - No.2 Shaft; now gardens for manager & assistant manager; non-European area; non-European hospital No.3 compound - surface features; No.3 Shaft; No.3 Shaft - parking area and stores; nursery school - tree planting plan; park area; plan & sections for soil shaping; plan of landscape shaping from general offices westward to Escom reserve & post office; planting plan - area Mang roadway S.W. of store; police barracks & post office No.2 Shaft; police barracks earthworks, layout plan; portion of surface plan showing ESC reserve; preliminary garden layout for assistant manager's house; proposed entrance to manager's garden & details of gates; propound extension to existing single quarters; proposed layout of nursery; proposed layout of workshops area; proposed parking & driveway to area between No.3 Shaft compound arena & road past No.3 Shaft; proposed stops - No.3 compound; recreation club; recreation club - planting plan, swimming pool change houses; reduction works - shrub planting plan for bed A; revised terrace for manager's house; rose planting plan to compound office, No.3 Shaft; section through bowling green & plan of pavilion in recreation club garden; south of general offices - tree planting plan; steps from southern exit of single men's residence to parking garage; suggested layout for courtyard of general offices; suggested layout for No.2 Shaft; suggested layout of recreation club garden; suggested road plan for general & assay offices; suggested road verge layout south of new houses of officials - plots 3, 4 & 5; swimming bath area; terrace wall for canteen.

Accompanies the conditions of surrender and appoints the Vicomte de Nouilles his messenger and interpreter.

In French, with an English translation.

Copy. Encloses 7.

The Company agrees to sell the bored pipes to the Burgher Senate on condition that the Company no longer has to maintain repairs on wooden pumps, canals, sluices and bridges. Translated from the Dutch.

Describes councils, powers) of the governor, the departments of Notice, finance, Orphan Chamber and education, landdrosts, College of Heemraden, militia and police.

In French.

Enclosed in 23.

Receipt for an account for postages, newspapers and one year's agency on £500, 000.

Advises that the government should not be left to the East India Company, as the Dutch had done, but should be vested in a Governor and Supreme Council; gradual improvements can be made to the fiscal system and to the Dutch system of judges and magistrates; trader should be free except for the East Indian trade which must remain a monopoly of the East India Company; the real advantage of the Cape to Britain is the security it gives to the Indian empire.

(Rood.).

Comments on the views concerning trade at the Cape of Good Hope, expressed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, Mr. David Scott and Sir Stephen Lushington and then gives his own views; agrees that the East Indian trade be reserved for the East India Company but feels that trade from the West should be open to some extent to foreign ships, with the exception of certain articles which must come from Britain in British ships; in this way foreign ships could sell goods to enable them to pay for repairs and refreshment; suggests that Cape goods be exported in ships of all countries, except tallow and hides, which are needed by Britain, and that European goods be exported from the Cape by any country; refers to the need to protect British fishing rights at the Cape, the method of reforming custom and excise duties and the question of allowing only British immigrants into Cape colony.

Lists the amounts under the names of the various departments.

Names: Mr. Rena, Mr. Brandt, Mr. Baumgardt, Mr. Matthiessen, Messrs. de Wit & Braun. Lombard Bank.

Discusses the possible length and financial burden of the war against France and hopes that the Treasury officials will keep their promises to send funds; is about to leave for the Cape where he trusts he will not remain for more than 18 months.