Sessional Papers, Volume 67

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Page 167 - ... in default of payment, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding six months...
Page 25 - State, and all such persons shall hold their places in the said Council during Our pleasure.
Page 25 - Governor to do and execute all things that belong to his said office, according to the tenor of these our letters patent and of such commission as may be issued to him under our sign manual and signet, and according to such instructions as may from time to time be given to him under our sign manual and signet, or by our order in our Privy Council, or by us, through one of our principal Secretaries of State, and to such laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the State.
Page 156 - Military administration in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony will at the earliest possible date be succeeded by civil government, and, as soon as circumstances permit, representative institutions, leading up to self-government, will be introduced. 8. The question of granting the franchise to natives will not be decided until after the introduction of self-government.
Page 26 - Lieutenant-Governor may, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, grant a pardon to any accomplice in such crime or offence who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender...
Page 28 - Letters Patent and of such Commission as may be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and according to such Instructions as may from time to time be given to him, under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by Our Order in Our Privy Council, or by Us through One of our Principal Secretaries of State...
Page 39 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 156 - Republic and all receipts given by officers in the field of the late Republics, or under their orders, to be presented to a Judicial Commission, which will be appointed by the Government, and if such notes and receipts are found by this Commission to have been duly issued in return for valuable considerations, they will be received by the firstnamed Commissions as evidence of war losses suffered by the persons to whom they were originally given.
Page 25 - Colony as can conveniently attend; which being done he shall then and there take before them the Oath of Allegiance, in the form provided by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Thirty-first and Thirty-second years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths...
Page 14 - LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony, and providing for the Government Thereof.

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