SCHEDULE. Railway, Postal, Telegraph and Customs Revenue, Port and Harbour Dues, Rent (exclusive of Land Rent and Tolls), Fines, Forfeitures and Fees of Court (Judicial), Fees of Office, Sales of Government Property, Reimbursements, Excise Duty, and such other Heads of Revenue as Parliament may by resolutions adopted by both Houses direct. P.R.O., C.O. 50/7. SALARY OF HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH No. 38 of 1889.1 No. 47. Act. To provide for the Salary of Her Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa. [Assented to 12th August 1889.] Be it enacted by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly thereof, as follows: I. [High Commissioner to receive out of the public revenue of the Colony the annual salary of £3000.] 2. [Short title: "The High Commissioner's Salary Act, 1889."] P.R.O., C.O. 50/7. NARROWING THE PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE. [Promulgated 16th August 1892.] No. 9 of 1892.2 No. 48. Act. To amend the Law with regard to the Qualification of Voters for Members of Parliament, and to make provision for taking Votes by Ballot at Parliamentary Elections. Be it enacted. 1. [Repeal of repugnant laws.] 2. [Interpretation of terms.] 3. [Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, etc. not to apply to voters already registered so long as they continue to reside in places in respect of which they are registered.] 4. Subject to the provisions in the third section contained, (a) The words "twenty-five" where they first occur 1 Repealed by Act No. 2 of 1902. 2 Cf. Act No. 2 of 1905, which prescribed when soldiers, seamen, and marines could vote. in the eighth section of the Constitution Ordinance shall be expunged, and the words "seventyfive" inserted in their stead. (b) The words, " or who having been in the receipt for the space aforesaid of salary or wages at and after the rate of not less than twenty-five pounds by the year shall, in addition to such salary or wages, have been supplied with board and lodging,' where they occur in the said eighth section of the said Ordinance, shall be expunged. (c) The words "twenty-five" wherever they occur in the ninth section of the said Ordinance, or in the seventeenth section of the Act 14 of 1887, or wherever they are used in any statute to denote the value of property required to be occupied in connection with the qualification of a parliamentary voter, shall be expunged, and the words "seventy-five" inserted in their stead. 5. [Qualification of voters in Griqualand West to be the same as in other parts of the Colony.] 6. [Subject to a few exceptions] no person shall, from and after the taking effect of this Act, be entitled to be registered as a parliamentary voter for any Electoral Division in this Colony, unless such person is able to sign his name and to write his address and occupation. [Etc.] 85. This Act may be cited as the "Franchise and Ballot Act, 1892." P.R.O., C.O. 50/8. MINISTERIAL OFFICES. [Promulgated 12 Sept. 1893.] No. 14 of 1893. No. 49. Act. To create the Office of a Minister of Agriculture, to abolish the Office of Secretary for Native Affairs, and to amend the designation of and provide for the assignment of duties to certain Ministerial Officers. Be it enacted by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly thereof, as follows: 1. From and after the taking effect of this Act there shall be in this Colony a certain office, to be called the office of Secretary of Agriculture." 2. The person to hold the said office shall be appointed by Her Majesty the Queen, and shall hold office during Her Majesty's pleasure, and shall be charged with such duties. as Her Majesty shall from time to time assign to him. 3. The provisions of sections 3, 4, and 8 of the Act No. I of 1872 and of section 8 of the Act No. 18 of 1874 shall apply to the said office and the Secretary for Agriculture as though the said office and the said Secretary had been therein specifically mentioned and referred to. 4. The Secretary for Agriculture shall from the date of his appointment receive salary at the same rate at which those officers receive salary who are named in section 2 of the Act No. 32 of 1879, which was revived under and by virtue of the provisions of Act No. 28 of 1887, and he may be the Prime Minister.1 5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Act No. 1 of 1872, the officers therein styled "The Treasurer of the Colony," and "The Commissioner of Crown Lands and Public Works" shall be respectively styled "The Treasurer" and "The Commissioner of Public Works." 6. The Office of Secretary for Native Affairs constituted under the Act No. 1 of 1872 shall be and is hereby abolished, and the duties and functions hitherto assigned to and exercised by the Secretary for Native Affairs shall, from and after the taking effect of this Act, be discharged and performed by the Prime Minister of this Colony for the time being, or by any other Minister to whom the Governor may assign the same. 7. In the interpretation of any law the word "Minister " shall mean that member of the Executive Council to whom the administration of that law is assigned, unless there be anything in the context inconsistent with or repugnant to such interpretation: Provided that whenever by any law the exercise of any power or the performance of any duty or function is conferred or imposed on or assigned to any Minister therein named, such power, duty, or function may legally be exercised or performed by any other Minister to whom the Governor may assign the exercise or performance of the same. 8. The Prime Minister shall, notwithstanding that save as aforesaid he shall not hold one of the offices referred to in the third section of the Act No. 1 of 1872, be deemed to be included in the empowering provisions of the fourth section of that Act. 9. This Act shall take effect upon the promulgation thereof, and may be cited as the "Minister of Agriculture Act, 1893." P.R.O., C.O. 50/8. 1 It is believed that this is the first mention of the office of Prime Minister in any law of the British Empire. ANNEXATION OF PONDOLAND. [25 Sept. 1894.] No. 5 of 1894. No. 50. Act. To provide for the Annexation of the Country known as Pondoland. P.R.O., C.O. 50/8. ANNEXATION OF BRITISH BECHUANALAND. No. 41 of 1895. [II Nov. 1895.] No. 51. Act. To make provision for the Annexation to this P.R.O., C.O. 50/8. SECTION B. LOCAL GOVERNMENT. REPAIR OF ROADS. [21 March 1800.] No. 52. Proclamation.-By Sir GEORGE YONGE, Baronet, etc. WHEREAS it appears evident upon Enquiry that the roads of this Colony stand in need of considerable repairs, previous to the ensuing Winter; and as the Burgher Senate and the Landdrosts in the different Districts are the persons under whose immediate orders and directions such repairs are to be undertaken. In order, therefore, that a work so essentially necessary to the comfort and convenience of all ranks of Society may be carried on in such a manner as to those entrusted with the care and management of it may appear most likely to the completion thereof; I do by virtue of these presents declare and make known to all the inhabitants of this Colony, That all Regulations and directions coming from the Burgher Senate or the Landdrosts and Heemraden in their Districts are to be considered in this particular instance as the orders of Government, and are consequently to be obeyed as such, and any person or persons who, regardless of these my Commands, shall neglect or hesitate to comply with the orders and directions they may receive from those acting under my authority shall upon their disobedience being proved pay a Fine of One Hundred Rix-dollars to be appropriated towards the defraying of the Expenses attending the before-mentioned Repairs. [Etc.] Rec. III. 82. 1 REPAIR OF ROADS. [13 Sept. 1806.] No. 53. Government Advertisement.-Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the representations that have been made to His Excellency the Lieutenant-General Commanding in Chief, upon the bad state of the Roads in the Country Districts, he has directed the several Landdrosts to be written to, authorising them to appoint an Overseer of the Roads in each District, who will be empowered to call upon the Inhabitants to furnish a proportion of their Slaves (according to an accurate list to be furnished by the Landdrost and Heemraden) for the repair of the Roads. Persons neglecting to furnish their Slaves when called upon, will be liable to a penalty of Fifty Rix-dollars for each offence, which sum is to be levied by Landdrost and Heemraden, and applied to the Fund for the repairing of the Roads. Procls., etc., p. 37. THE COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE. [28 Feb. 1828.] [Civil Commissioners succeeded to the administrative duties of Landdrosts and Heemraden. In 1834 the offices of Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate were united. Cf. document No. 73.] No. 43. No. 54. Ordinance.-Of His Honour the LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR in Council, for empowering the Collector of Taxes in Cape Town, and the Civil Commissioners of the Country Districts, to collect the several Taxes and Duties now or hereafter to be imposed, and payable within the Colony. WHEREAS certain of the Taxes now payable in this Colony have been heretofore collected and got in by the Landdrosts, Landdrosts and Commissioned Heemraden, Deputy Landdrosts, Deputy Landdrosts and Commissioned Heemraden, Residents, and Residents and Commissioned Heemraden, of the several Districts, Subdistricts, and Residencies, respectively; and certain others of the said Taxes have heretofore been collected by and got in by the late Burgher Senate: And whereas the Offices of Landdrost, Deputy Landdrost, and Resident, have now ceased and determined, and the said Burgher Senate has been abolished, whereby the Revenue can no longer be collected as heretofore, and it is therefore necessary to make some other Provision in that behalf: Be it therefore enacted, by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, that the several Taxes and Duties heretofore payable to, and levied by, the said Burgher Senate, shall, from and after the passing of this Ordinance, be payable to, and levied by, the Collector of Taxes in Cape Town; . . . and the several Taxes and Duties |