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Document DOC-0219

Diagram verso, 995/1868 (verso), September 1864

Diagram verso, September 1864

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The record

Type
Diagram verso
Diagram number
995/1868 (verso)
Surveyed
September 1864
Titled
1994
Archive filename
10130406 12 0.jpg

Citation

Title
SG Dgm 995/1868 - reverse: deduction table, Riet Fontein No. 12
Repository
Landmeter-Generaal, Kaapstad
Reference
No. 995/1868 (verso)
Type
SG diagram
Retrieved
2026-08-04

The ground it is about

Rietfontein No. 12 12

Research notes

[8 Aug 2026] READ. Verso of the 1868 Riet Fontein sheet: a printed deduction table with two rows and nothing else. Columns Survey Record

Diagram No.

Sub-division

Area

Transfer: E.1366/58

5774/1958

Portion 1

2891.9588

transfer 7577 of 1959, dated 25.6.59 [typed]. E.2758/94

8388/94

PORTION 2

5510,911

92 991/94 [handwritten, initialled WT].

[8 Aug 2026] THE TWO ROWS ARE IN DIFFERENT UNITS, AND EACH IS RIGHT IN ITS OWN. Portion 1 was cut in 1958, before metrication, and 2,891.9588 is MORGEN: x 0.856532 = 2,477.1 ha against the cadastre's 2,490.5, which is 0.54% apart. Portion 2 was cut in 1994, after it, and 5,510,911 is HECTARES with a comma decimal: the cadastre says 5,509.4, which is 0.03% apart. Read both as morgen, or both as hectares, and one of them is out by 17%. This is the same trap that put a fictional 478.7 ha into Middelwater's notes (PAR-000001), met here as an explicit unit change INSIDE ONE TABLE.

[8 Aug 2026] AND THE WHOLE FARM RECONCILES. The 1868 grant is 15,167 morgen 520 roods = 12,991.8 ha. Less Portion 1 (2,477.1 ha) and Portion 2 (5,510.9 ha) leaves 5,003.8 ha; the cadastre gives the Remainder as 4,950.6, 1.07% apart. Every piece of farm 12 is now accounted for from its own documents: PAR-000158, PAR-000159, PAR-000160.

[8 Aug 2026] DATED AND RELEASED. survey_edtf carries the FRONT's survey date, 1864-09, and title_edtf the NEWEST endorsement on the sheet, 1994, which is the handling used for every other verso here (DOC-0118, DOC-0130, DOC-0134, DOC-0161, DOC-0199). That withholds the image on date; publish_ok=yes then releases it, because the sheet has been read and NAMES NOBODY - survey records, diagram numbers, portion numbers, areas, transfer numbers and one initial. 11: the gate is about people, and a deduction table is about ground.

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