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He was initially asked to stand as Member for Cape Town in the lower house of the Cape
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Commercial Exchange which was controlled by larger businesses. In the 1850s he was involved in the setting up of a lighthouse at Cape Point. In 1860 he was appointed (along with
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the MPs which the right wing newspapers of the time disparagingly dubbed "the Malays", due to their relying substantially or mostly on the Muslim electorate of Cape Town.
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Murison's brothers Andrew and George took James's opposition to monopolies to the extreme and, in their fight against the monopoly on the guano trade from the
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