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23 Februari April Barkly Basuto Bazoeto's Bazoetoland Beersheba betrekking BIJLAGE Blauwboek Bloemfontein Boeren Boshoff brief Britsche Gouvernement Britsche regeering Brittische onderdanen Brittischen Resident burgers Carnarvon chief commissie conventie dezelve diamantvelden dien Drakensberg eenige Engeland Engelsche Februari geheel George Russell goed Goede Hoop Gouvernements-Courant gouverneur grenslijn Grey Grikwaland-West Griqua grondgebied H. A. L. HAMELBERG Hamelberg Harer Majesteits Harry Smith heer Hollandsche Hooge Commissaris hunne J. J. Venter Januari Juni Kaapkolonie Kaapsche Kaapstad kapitein Kaptein Adam Kok Kimberley Kruger land landdrost M. W. Pretorius Maart maken minister van koloniën mogt Molappo Mosjesj Natal October ofschoon onafhankelijkheid onze Orange Free Oranje Oranje-rivier Oranje-Vrijstaat Oranjerivier President Brand proclamatie regt secretaris Smith Smithfield Souvereiniteit staatkundige staatspresident Theal Transoranje Transvaal Transvaalsche tusschen Uitvoerenden Raad verdrag Villiers volk volksraad vrede Vrijstaat Vrijstaatsche regeering Vrijstaters Waterboer wensch Winburg Wodehouse zaken ZHEd zijde zooals zoodanige zoowel Zuid-Afrika Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek zulke zullen
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Page 311 - Letters Patent under the Great Seal of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster the 6th day of September, 1869, in the 33rd year of our reign...
Page 312 - America, for and during our will and pleasure, as by the said recited letters patent, (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear'. Now know you that we have revoked and determined, and by these presents do revoke and determine, the said recited letters patent, and every clause, article, and thing therein contained. And further know you, that we reposing especial trust...
Page 291 - River, generally ; the great chief fully concurred in the proposition of His Excellency, that peace, harmony, and tranquillity could neither be established nor maintained without the existence of some great and paramount authority. For the purpose therefore of effecting this object, and at the same time of maintaining inviolate the hereditary rights of the chiefs, and of effectually restraining the Boers within the limits, and upon the locations they now possess, and that magistrates might be appointed...
Page 292 - ... upon which the Chief immediately said, he had not met the High Commissioner on any pecuniary point, which he begged to waive entirely ; but that as he had ever been a strong and staunch friend to such of Her Majesty's subjects as had emigrated and desired to locate upon such territories ; so all he hoped was, that the measure of policy the High Commissioner proposed to adopt, to ensure harmony and tranquillity between Her Majesty's and his own subjects would be carried out. Upon this, in the...
Page 319 - ... all right of property in the tract of country called Beersheba mission station to the Orange Free State, stipulates that 6,000 acres of land immediately surrounding the mission station, the boundaries of which land shall be defined by the Commissioner or Commissioners appointed by the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, shall continue to be held by the French Mission, in trust for missionary purposes, with full power, if they see fit so to do, to dispose of the same to any purchaser...
Page 312 - And we do hereby reserve to us, our heirs and successors, full power and authority to revoke...
Page 291 - ... surveyors employed to ensure the same, His Excellency proposed the Proclamation of the Sovereignty of the Queen of England throughout all the territories over which Her Majesty's subjects have spread themselves, partly by purchase, partly on toleration, and frequently without either. Of the expediency of this great measure, in which the chiefs previously conferred with, viz., Maroka, Adam Kok, and various other minor chiefs, had fully concurred ; the chief Moshesh most fully approved and strongly...
Page 312 - And whereas by letters patent under the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date the 22nd of March, 1851, Her Majesty did, after reciting the said first-mentioned proclamation, ordain and appoint that the said territories therein described should thenceforth become and be constituted a distinct and separate government, to be administered in her name and on her behalf by the Governor and Commander...
Page 312 - Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, MajorGeneral of Our Forces, to be Our Governor and Commander-inChief in and over Our Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with its Territories and Dependencies as also of the Castle and all Forts and Garrisons erected or established within the said Settlement, Territories and Dependencies for and during Our Pleasure ; And Whereas We have deemed it expedient that the Eastern Districts of Our said Settlement of the Cape...
Page 319 - Art. III. — All subjects of the chief Moshesh, with the exceptions aftermentioned in the Article relating to the mission station of Beersheba, shall withdraw from the Free State side of the line, without compensation, and all subjects of the Free State shall withdraw from the Basuto side of the line, without compensation, — but ample time shall be allowed them to remove their crops and buildings. Art. IV. — The chief Moshesh in yielding as above-stated all right of property in the tract of...