More texture emerges in narrative documents such as landdrost's correspondence and criminal records, but the Company's regular accounting of loan farms, settler agricultural production, and slave ownership do, in fact, reveal more than statistics. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For the present we can follow his history no farther than to say, that the proceeds of his great hunt enabled him to buy back his old estate, and to stock it in splendid style, with the best breeds of horses, horned cattle, and sheep; that he rose rapidly in wealth and worldly esteem; that the government gave him its confidence; and, having first restored him to his old office of field-cornet, soon afterwards promoted him to that of "landdrost," or chief magistrate of the district. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The landdrost reported to the fiscaal, the Company's prosecutor, and the governor. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The contracts had to be completed in triplicate: one copy going to the employer, another copy to the laborer, and a third copy to be filed with the landdrost. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Rent, which could be paid in specie or livestock, was payable either at the landdrost or the Castle at the Cape. 25 Farmers in outlying areas often paid several years at once, presumably due in part to the long journey from their farms to the seats of colonial authority. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The landdrost captured their presence near Stellenbosch in the newly-implemented "Hottentot Register." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Members of the heemraad, or citizens 'advisory council, assisted the landdrost, a Company official. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The first landdrost, or magistrate, was appointed to serve in Stellenbosch in 1679. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Throughout the eighteenth century the Olifants River was under the jurisdiction of the landdrost in Stellenbosch. back ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some veldkornets making inquiries on behalf of the landdrost commented on family relationships, but most did not, and very few responded to the request for information about residences. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In some ways, the creation of new NGK gemeente mirrored the creation of new landdrost districts, dividing both congregations and constituencies into manageable sizes in terms of geography and population. ❋ Unknown (2008)
From the perspective of a slave, the exercise of state authority began with his or her master, who was legally permitted to mete out corporal punishment. 32 The master was in turn subject to the authority of the veldkornet, the landdrost, and the heemraden. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Landdrosts thus had enormous power over individual Khoisan, and increased power relative to colonial settlers, since the landdrost in effect distributed labor among farmers in his district. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This quotidian continuity was particularly true on the Cedarberg frontier, where interaction with state power took place through the mediation of veldkornets and, occasionally, the landdrost himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The proclamation further required that every Khoikhoi individual within the boundaries of the Colony have a fixed place of residence registered with either the fiscaal or the landdrost; Khoikhoi were required to procure passes for moving out of their district of registration. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The company therefore decided to create a new position for the administration of justice on the mainland of Taiwan: the landdrost, or judge. 96 He was to preside over all cases that did not involve capital crimes and would, like the Board of Aldermen, have authority not just over Dutchmen but also over aborigines and Chinese. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Second, the sheriff (landdrost) Valentijn, "who, with ... his fines and abuse [breucken], is chewing the legs off the poor [Chinese]," would be replaced by someone who "will serve this office with more compassion and less greed [schraperie]." ❋ Unknown (2006)
India Company and establish a separate government - a Boer republic under Hermanus Steyn, the landdrost. ❋ Unknown (2000)
East India Company and establish a separate government - a Boer republic under Hermanus Steyn, the landdrost. ❋ Unknown (1998)
