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"On condition of the owner or occupier of this land permitting His Majesties
Commissioner for the Naval Department or the Principal Officer having charge of that
Branch of Service to erect a Light House on such part of the Cape Point as may be
judged most convenient for that purpose and also permitting all necessary access to
such Light House when built" (67) .

Blaauwberg Vlei

Then to the northwest, Frans Daniel Rossouw was granted the property of Blaauwberg Vlei
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on October 15 , 1817 – 1076 morgen 295 square roods in extent (Cape Farm No. 1057). This
came to be separated from Buffelsfontein by rationalizing the previous rounded / half-hour
circle of Buffelsfontein, during survey, with straight lines. Given the conditions under which
the granting of Perpetual Quitrent was governed, no property could exceed the original grant
of land in extent. This in turn resulted in slivers of generally rectangular tracts of land when a
rounded, half- hour walk boundary was straightened on a farm like Buffelsfontein. These
then remained as Crown Land and today, serve to explain a number of such small pieces of
government property in between established farms that remained behind and eventually were
purchased and / or granted to the Divisional Council of the Cape to become part of the Cape
of Good Hope Nature Reserve, after 1939 (68) .

Olifantsbos

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Also on the October 15 , 1817, the farm Olifantsbosch was granted under perpetual quitrent
to Gerhardus Hurter – an area 1360 morgen 268 roods in extent surrounding his mother’s
original 60 morgen of “Oude Erfpacht Land” displayed on the required land survey. (Cape
Farm No 1056) (69) .

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