Transvaal Problems: Some Notes on Current Politics |
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affairs aforesaid amount appointed Boer BOER CONGRESS Boer leaders Botha British Government burghers Cape Colony cause Chinese claims Colonial Secretary coloured Commission Commissioners common consideration Constitution declared Diamond Dutch electoral district favour Gazette gold Governor Head Committee Het Volk Imperial important industry inhabitants Inter-Colonial Council interests Johannesburg Kaffirs labour land Legislative Assembly Legislature Letters Patent Lieutenant-Governor list of voters Lord Milner Majesty's Government matter meeting ment mines Natal native necessary nominated object opinion Orange River Colony Order organisation passed person political polling population present President Pretoria principle Proclamation Progressive Association qualification question races railway reason regard Registering Officer registration of voters Representative Government representative institutions resolution respect Responsible Government Responsible Government Association Returning Officer Schalk Burger self-government South Africa speech supply Terms of Surrender tion to-day Transvaal Volk vote ward whole Witwatersrand
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Page 290 - Act and to such Instructions as may from Time to Time be given in that Behalf by Her Majesty...
Page 315 - ... time under the provisions of these Our letters patent, administer the government of the colony. XIX. In the construction of these Our letters patent, the term '' the governor," unless inconsistent with the context, shall include every person for the time being administering the government of the colony.
Page 268 - The burghers so surrendering or so returning will not be deprived of their personal liberty or their property. (4) No proceedings, civil or criminal, will be taken against any of the burghers surrendering or so returning for any acts in connection with the prosecution of the war. The benefit of this clause will not extend to certain acts, contrary to usages of war, which have been notified by the Commander-in-Chief to the Boer Generals, and which shall be tried by court-martial immediately after...
Page 286 - The Governor shall not quit the State without having first obtained leave from Us for so doing under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State...
Page 309 - Pounds, and in default of Payment, to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for a Period not exceeding Three...
Page 308 - The returning officer shall appoint a presiding officer to preside at each station, and the officer so appointed shall keep order at his station, shall regulate the number of electors to be admitted at a time, and shall exclude all other persons except the clerks, the agents of the candidates, and the constables on duty.
Page 267 - Orange River Colony and all prisoners of war at present outside South Africa who are burghers will, on duly declaring their acceptance of the position of subjects of His Majesty King Edward VII...
Page 292 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty...
Page 313 - Parliament or by Proclamation, that it has received the Assent of the Queen in Council. An Entry of every such Speech, Message, or Proclamation shall be made in the Journal of each House, and a Duplicate thereof duly attested shall be delivered to the proper Officer to be kept among the Records of Canada. V. PROVINCIAL CONSTITUTIONS. Executive Power. 58.
Page 289 - Council shall proclaim the names and boundaries of the electoral divisions as finally settled and certified by the commission, or a majority thereof, and thereafter, until there shall be a re-division, the electoral divisions as named and...