Hahndorf Volume 2, A survey carried out for the Australian Heritage Commission page 342, 1981.

Source:  Australian Lutheran Almanac 1939 page 44

"In order to settle the German emigrants I brought here, the following offer has been made to me - through Mr DUTTON's partners, Messrs. MacFARLANE and FINNIS, the owners, of an important stretch of land near Mount Barker.

1. One hundred acres of land are to be set aside for them rent-free during the first year.  Of this area, 19 acres are allowed for the erection of houses and for constructing roads; the remainder is for cultivation but will again be subdivided among the 38 families.
2. The above-mentioned gentlemen partners pledge themselves to deliver the emigrants and their belongings to the dwelling place granted them for their habitation-this be on credit.
3. The above gentlemen pledge themselves to provide the emigrants with provision for on eyer, until they be indefatigable industry will harvest produce from the soil allotted them.  See of the kind they need is also to be provided, but this is to be debited to those few referred to above, who asked for seed and other provisions; it is not to be considered as a communal debt;
4. The partners promise to supply fowls, cattle and pigs on credit, in the expectation that the emigrants will soon be able to cancel their debt by selling their produce in town and be enabled to purchase their own domestic animals.                                                         The following was agreed to by those concerned without my demanding it.
5. On the arrival of the company at their dwelling-place 6 milch cows are to be distributed to them and during the course of the month of March each family is to have as many cows as they wish, but these cows must first be broken in.  In every third month these must be exchanged for some not yet broken in, but they are to retain sufficient broken-in cows so that they never have only cows not broken in.
6. If, as well all hope and expect, the gentlemen concerned find that the emigrants are industrious and thorough workers on the land, they promise to have a church and a school built next year, whereby the settlers will have to render service as manual labourers and serve with teams, but the partners (owners) are to pay building costs;
7. Mr DUTTON promises to present 20 pound a year, Mr FINNIS and Mr METCALFE 10 pound sterling each for the clergyman and the school master.
8. Mr H. KOOK (sic) (he was a cabin passenger, an agriculturalist) is to be appointed by the partners as supervisor over the new settlement and is to be supported by them, but he is to be paid an annual salary of forty pound by emigrants.
9. All the above is to be valid only for this year on trial.  If the partners find that the land proves itself suitable for agriculture owing to the industry of the emigrants, the latter are to be granted more land at an appropriate rental.  The gentlemen will also not be disinclined to take on more German emigrants of unexceptionable character."

Herewith the stipulations were completed and immediately agreed to by these gentlemen, so that after acceptance by the emigrants, they could be considered as a valid contract.  

Hahndorf Volume 2, A survey carried out for the Australian Heritage Commission page 344, 1981.

Extract from a document signed by the Hahndorf residents who were involved in the Langmeil Land purchase (Langmeil Landkauf).

Source  St Michael's Messenger No 97, October 1938

"Proceedings at Hahndorf on August 1st, 1839, in the presence of the whole congregations with the exception of a few sick, who, however, have in part signified their agreement through other brethren:-

"1.  The congregation at Hahndorf takes a share in the 3000 acres purchased by the Klemzig congregation, or rather by their representatives, from Messrs. Angas and Flaxman, and in proof of this undertaking subscribes its names:

"2. The congregation at Hahndorf is in conscience bound to declare that they will and cannot leave Hahndorf until Messrs. DUTTON, Captain FINNIS, and MacFARLANE compel them by their conduct, and withholding of the support promised up to harvest and in general by not fulfilling the conditions of the contract - as indeed now already the case-to be unfaithful to their promises on their part and they thus are forced against their will to leave Hahndorf.  Read, adopted, and signed at Hahndorf on August 1st, 1839"

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