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 138 History of the Cape Colony. [1878 English acres in extent, were laid out in allotments for their use. Those who went first numbered one thousand and nineteen men, two thousand two hundred and seventy-eight women, and four thousand three hundred and sixty-seven children, but there were many of both sexes in service with Europeans at the time, and these were sent on afterwards as their contracts expired. The removal of the first large party was timed so that they should reach their destination at the beginning of the planting season, and the government provided them with the necessary seed. They were required to surrender all their arms of every kind before they set out on the journey, but were paid the appraised value in money, and they were supplied with food and means of trans- port for their household effects. Mr. Matthew B. Shaw, a son of the reverend William Shaw, the Wesleyan missionary who had come to South Africa with the British settlers of 1820, was appointed magistrate of the district of Kentani, and assumed duty on the 1st of October. The only legal power which he could exercise was derived from a commission which he held under the Act 26 and 27 Victoria, cap. 35, — the amended South Africa punishment act, — but in practice he assumed full magisterial jurisdiction, which was not questioned by any one. The whole of the old Gaika location west of the Kei thus became vacant. It was divided into farms, which were sold on quitrent tenure by public auction to Euro- peans, so that the colony gained that tract of land in reality by the rebellion. It is included in the district of Cathcart. Some of those Galekas who were roaming about home- less beyond the Bashee now surrendered their arms and professed their willingness to come under colonial magis- trates, and were located in the district of Willowvale. twenty-nine acres and two-fifths. It would of course be much less now in all parts of the territory between the Kei and Natal.