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Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek Document - Agreement - Rand Mines & Metropolitan G.M. Co. Ltd.
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A notarised agreement dated 17 January 1894, in which George Rouliot and Carl Hanau, for Rand Mines Limited, and Richard Kent and Adolf Epler, acting for Metropolitan Gold Mining Company Limited, appeared before Willem van Hulsteyn, Notary Public.
The front page of this agreement contains the ink stamp of van Hulsteyn, over a 2 Shilling 6 Pence Zegelregt revenue stamp. The last of the 9 pages of the agreement, typed on facing pages only, contains the seal of van Hulsteyn and his signature.
Annexure A to the agreement is a declaration by the company secretary of The Rand Mines Limited, J. Percy FitzPatrick (of Jock of the Bushveld fame), dated 15th January 1894, certifying the wording in the annexure to be a true extract from minutes of a meeting of the directors resolving that Hanau and Rouliot above may act for the company. This document is not signed, but again bears a Zegelregt stamp (Een Shilling) overstamped by van Hulsteyn.
Annexure B is the equivalent resolution of the other party, attested to by J.V. Blinkhom, resolving that Kent and Epler above may act for Metropolitan G.M.C., also unsigned but with a cancelled Een Shilling Zegelrecht stamp.This is followed by annexure C, a folding diagram of approximately 470 mm x 300 mm, detailing the extent of water rights referred to in the agreement, certified a true copy by H.B. White, surveyor, 9/1/94, and bearing a further cancelled Een Shilling Zegelregt stamp.
The agreement binds the parties, that as consequence of the construction by The Rand Mines Limited of a reservoir on their land, that a portion of land (situated on the Natal Spruit on the farm Doornfontein of Bezuidenhout District Heidelberg) belonging to Metropolitan G.M.C. would be flooded. In return for Metropolitan G.M.C. raising no objection thereto, The Rand Mines Limited agrees to make available water sufficient for 60 stamps of heavy pattern which supply shall not be of less amount than one hundred thousand gallons of water per twenty four hours, to Metropolitan G.M.C. (According to figures provided in Witwatersrand Gold 100 Years edited by E.S.A. Antrobus, page 22, such a volume of water in 1895 would represent around 4% of the daily consumption for all purposes of Johannesburg.)
The typed cover of the document has an archive stamp of Rand Mines, Ltd., noting that it was indexed on 14/3/12, with a hand-written note below the title advising that Metropolitan G.M. Co. Ltd is now known as New Goch Mines Ltd.