"Station Conference Minutes"

To the minutes there are subscripts concerning trouble over the boundaries of the Mission Land in Kibi. People in the town were disputing the mission's ownership of a strip of land on the town side of the mission land, and another strip along the Berem, and at the same time offering to let the mission expand to the extent of the area of the two disputed strips in the remaining directions. The missionaries' first reaction was to stick to the letter of the purchase letter and take the case to the Governor. However the Kibi missionaries decided in the end to try to make concessions and settle the dispute peaceably, while Missionary Schrenk in a subscript doubts if they would get much help from the Government, which tends to extend its influence over Akim only when it is in its own interest to do so. Leading people in the dispute on the Kibi side are the two female relatives of the Okyenhene, Ampofoa, the Okyenhene's mother, whose house was next to the boundary of the mission land on the town side, and Sekyera, his aunt. The difficulties on the town border had arisen because the town was being extended by the building of new houses (the impression given is that of a normal, slow increase in houses).

03.04.1869

03.04.1869

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