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Jacob Abraham de Mist, Commissioner-General, 21st February 1803 to 25th September 1804.
Lieutenant-General Jan Willem Janssens, Governor, installed 1st March 1803, capitulated to an English army 18th January 1806.
Installation by Commissioner-General De Mist of officials of the new government.—Grant of an amnesty to political offenders.—Release of the Graaff-Reinet prisoners.—Factions in Capetown.—Tour of General Janssens through the colony.—Foundation of the London mission station Bethelsdorp.—Arrangements with the recently hostile Hottentots.—Conferences with Xosa chiefs.—Transactions at Graaff-Reinet.—Cause of the reduction of the garrison.—Renewal of war between Great Britain on one side and France and the Batavian Republic on the other.—Condition of matters in the Zuurveld.—Confiscation of British property in Capetown.—Unsuccessful attempt of Mr. Gysbert Karel van Hogendorp to form a settlement near Plettenberg's Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Commissioner-General De Mist and Governor J. W. Janssens, (continued).
Tour of Commissioner-General De Mist through the colony.—Result of mission work at Genadendal and Bethelsdorp.—Establishment of order in Graaff-Reinet.—Creation of the new district of Uitenhage out of those portions of Graaff-Reinet and Swellendam which are occupied by the most turbulent farmers.—Appointment of a military officer in command of a body of troops as landdrost of Uitenhage.—Foundation of the village of Uitenhage.—Creation of the new district of Tulbagh out of part of Stellenbosch.—Publication of an ordinance giving equal rights to members of all religious bodies, but retaining the Dutch reformed as the state church.—Particulars concerning this church.—First public worship by Roman catholics in the Cape Colony since 1652 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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