14. [Verwijzing naar het hof van landdrost en heemraden van zaken aldaar thuis hoorende.] 15. [Behoudens eenige verdere macht die den landdrost mag verleend worden, zal hij in crimineele zaken als straf kunnen opleggen :] (A) Eene geldboete niet te boven gaande tien pond sterling; of bij gebreke van betaling gevangenzetting niet te boven gaande drie maanden. (B) Gevangenzetting voor een tijd van niet langer dan drie maanden, met of zonder dwangarbeid, met of zonder schrale voeding, met of zonder slagen met een roede (lat) of geesel (kats) geen vijf-en-twintig te boven gaande, en met of zonder opsluiting in het blok of in boeien. In geen geval zullen de lagere hoven rechtspraak kunnen uitoefenen in de grovere misdaden, zooals bijvoorbeeld: Meineed, Hoogverraad, Valsche Munt, Brandstichting, misdaden tegen het leven, Roof, Landsdieverij, enzoovoorts. 16. [Bijzondere jurisdictie van het landdrosthof in crimineele zaken in geval van diefstal van groot of kleinvee.] 17. [Borgtocht tot bewaring van vrede kan door de landdrost geëischt worden.] 18. [Ambtseed of belofte van de landdrost.] 19. [Borgstelling van de landdrostklerk.] 14. [Reference to the Court of Landdrost and Heemraden of cases falling more properly within their jurisdiction.] 15. [Saving any further power which may be extended to the Landdrost, he shall be entitled to inflict the following penalties in criminal cases :] (A) A fine not exceeding ten pounds sterling; or, in default of payment, imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months. (B) Imprisonment for a period not longer than three months, with or without hard labour, with or without low diet, with or without lashes with a cane or scourge, not exceeding twenty-five in number, and with or without confinement in stocks or in fetters. In no case shall the Lower Courts be empowered to pronounce judgment for the more serious crimes, as for example: Perjury, High treason, Counterfeiting of coins, Arson, crímes against life, Plundering, Embezzlement, . . . and so forth. 16. [Special jurisdiction of the Landdrost's Court in cases of theft of cattle and the smaller kinds of stock.] 17. [Security for keeping the peace may be demanded by the Landdrost.] 18. [The Landdrost's oath of office or promise.] 19. [Security to be given by the Landdrost's Clerk.] 20. [De landdrostklerk is registrateur; hij moet ontvangsten verantwoorden.] 21. [Fungeerende landdrostklerk.] AFDEELING III.-HET HOF VAN LANDDROST EN HEEMRADEN. 22. In het hof van landdrost en heemraden nemen zitting de landdrost, als voorzitter, en twee heemraden; hebbende elk der drie leden van het hof gelijke stem. 23. [Het hof neemt zitting op de hoofdplaats van het district eenmaal in de maand.] 24. Zes heemraden voor elk district worden door den Volksraad gekozen, ieder voor den tijd van twee achtereenvolgende jaren; [doch opengevallen plaatsen kunnen door de Staatspresident tijdelijk gevuld worden.] 25. [Kennisgeving van aanstellingen in de Gouvernements Courant." De heemraden nemen zitting beurtelings in zoodanige orde als zij të samen met den landdrost na hunne aanstelling mochten overeenkomen. 26. [Heemraden die zitting moeten nemen worden door den registrateur aangeschreven.] 27. [Procedures bij afwezigheid van aangeschreven heemraden.] 28. [Afzetting door den Staatspresident van heemraden voor herhaald verzuim van tegenwoordigheid. Toelage.] 29. [Ambtseed of belofte van heemraden.] 30. De rechtspraak van het hof van landdrost en heemraden in 20. [The Landdrost's Clerk shall be registrar of the Court. He must account for all receipts of money.] 21. [Acting Landdrost's Clerk.] DIVISION III.-THE COURT OF LANDDROST AND HEEMRADEN. 22. In the Court of Landdrost and Heemraden shall take session the Landdrost, as chairman, and two Heemraden, each of the three members of the Court having an equal vote. 23. [The Court shall hold a session in the chief town of the district once a month.] 24. Six Heemraden for each district shall be chosen by the Volksraad, each for the period of two successive years; [but vacancies may be filled temporarily by the State President.] 25. [Notification of appointments in the Government Gazette.] The Heemraden shall take session in turn in such order as they shall agree upon with the Landdrost after their appointment. 26. [Heemraden who are to take session shall be notified by the registrar.] 27. [Procedure in the case of any Heemraad being absent after having been notified.] 28. [Dismissal by the State President of any Heemraad who repeatedly fails to attend. Payment of Heemraden.] 29. [Oath of office or promise of Heemraden.] 30. The jurisdiction of the Court of Landdrost and Heem civiele zaken is zooals bepaald door het twaalfde artikel dezer wet, gewijzigd door in plaats van de geldsbedragen daarin genoemd te lezen het dubbele van die bedragen, zullende dit hof geen jurisdictie hebben in zaken bij het landdrosthof te huis behoorende. 31. De rechtspraak van het hof van landdrost en heemraden in crimineele zaken is zooals bepaald door de vijftiende en zeventiende artikelen dezer wet, gewijzigd door in plaats van eenig getal daarin genoemd, het dubbele van het getal te lezen, uitgezonderd, dat dit hof, wat het toedienen van slagen betreft, geene meerdere jurisdictie dan het landdrosthof hebben zal. 32. [Verwijzing van zaken naar het landdrosthof.] 33. [Verdaging, doch geen uitstel, van crimineele zaken in dit hof toegelaten.] 34. [Landdrostklerk zal registrateur zijn.] AFDEELING IV.-HET HOF VAN DEN ASSISTENT-LANDDROST EN VAN ASSISTENT-LANDDROST EN HEEMRAden. 35-41. [Het hof van den assistent-landdrost heeft gelijke jurisdictie met het landdrosthof, en het hof van assistent-landdrost en 2 heemraden heeft gelijke jurisdictie met het hof van landdrost en heemraden; maar zij oefenen hun functie uit alleen in de wijk waarin het dorp gelegen is alwaar de assistent-landdrost zitting houdt.] raden in civil cases shall be, as is laid down in the twelfth article of this law, modified by reading, instead of the sums of money mentioned therein, twice the amount of those sums; and this Court shall have no jurisdiction in cases falling within the jurisdiction of the Landdrost's Court. 31. The jurisdiction of the Court of Landdrost and Heemraden in criminal cases shall be as is laid down in the fifteenth and seventeenth articles of this law, modified by reading, instead of any number mentioned therein, twice the amount of that number, with the exception that this Court shall, as regards the imposing of lashes, have no higher jurisdiction than the Landdrost's Court. 32. [Cases properly belonging to the Court of the Landdrost shall be referred to him.] 33. [Adjournment, but no postponement of criminal cases, shall be permitted in this Court.] 34. [The Landdrost's Clerk shall be registrar.] DIVISION IV. THE COURTS OF THE ASSISTANT LANDDROST AND OF ASSISTANT LANDDROST AND HEEMRADEN. 35-41. [The Court of the Assistant Landdrost shall have equal jurisdiction with the Landdrost's Court, and the Court of Assistant Landdrost and 2 Heemraden shall have equal jurisdiction with the Court of Landdrost and Heemraden; but each of these Courts shall exercise its functions only in the ward in which is situated the village where the Assistant Landdrost holds his sessions.] AFDEELING V.-HET PERIODIEK HOF. 42-48. [Te worden gehouden door den landdrost van het district, of door iemand anders door den President benoemd, en wel vier keeren in het jaar op elk der dorpen, Lindley, Brandfort, Dewetsdorp, Reddersburg, Edenburg, Frankfort, Vredefort, Zastron, Senekal, Ventersburg, Bultfontein en Parijs.] [Enz.] O.V.S. Wetboek, 1854-91, p. 59. DIVISION V.-THE PERIODICAL COURT. 42-48. [To be held by the Landdrost of the district, or by some other person appointed by the President, four times a year, at each of the villages of Lindley, Brandfort, Dewetsdorp, Reddersburg, Edenburg, Frankfort, Vredefort, Zastron, Senekal, Ventersburg, Bultfontein, and Parijs.] [Etc.] No. 170. THE CONVENTION OF ALIWAL NORTH. [12 Feb. 1869.] [In 1867 during a war between the Free State and the Basutos, Moshesh, who had been driven from one stronghold after another and whose power was on the point of being finally broken, sent urgent entreaties to the High Commissioner requesting to be taken over with his people as British subjects. Basutoland was consequently declared British territory, and this document was drawn up to establish the boundaries and to agree on other points. Cf. C. of G. Hope Act No. 12 of 1871, p. 61.] His Excellency Sir PHILIP EDMOND WODEHOUSE, . . . Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Her Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner for the Affairs of South Africa, etc. etc. etc., acting on behalf, and in the name, of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, on the one part; And JOHANNES HENDRICUS BRAND, Esq., President of the Orange Free State, HENDRIK ANTONIE LODEWYK HAMELBERG, Esq., Cornelius Janse DE VILLIERS, Esq., JACOBUS JOHANNES VENTER, Esq., and ANDRIES JACOBUS BESTER, Esq., Members of the Volksraad of the Orange Free State. appointed as Commissioners by, and acting on behalf, and in the name of, the Government of the Orange Free State, on the other part; Having met at Aliwal North, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa, for the purpose of negotiating about all pending questions with regard to the Basuto affairs, have agreed, as they hereby agree: ART. I. The boundary line between Basutoland, forming part of the British Empire by virtue of the proclamation of his Excellency the High Commissioner of Her Britannic Majesty, dated 12th March 1868, and the Orange Free State, shall, subject to the provisions contained in the 6th Article hereof, be as follows: From the junction of the Cornetspruit with the Orange River, along the centre of the former to the point nearest to Olifantsbeen; from that point to Olifantsbeen; from Olifantsbeen to the southern point of Langberg; along the top of Langberg to its north-western extremity; from thence to the eastern point of Jammerberg: along the top of Jammerberg to its north-western extremity; from thence, by a prolongation of the same, to the Caledon River ; along the centre of the Caledon River to where the Putisani falls into it; along the centre of the Putisani to its source in the Drakensberg; from thence along the Drakensberg. ART. 2. The boundary line mentioned in Art. I shall be marked off, and proper beacons shall be erected along the same without delay as far as may be deemed necessary, by two or more Commissioners, to be appointed respectively by his Excellency the High Commissioner and the President of the Orange Free State, in the presence of two land surveyors, who shall be appointed in the same manner, and who shall frame two similar sketches of the said boundary line or such part of the same as shall be marked off, to be signed by them and by the Commissioners aforesaid, one to be transmitted to his Excellency the High Commissioner, and one to the President of the Orange Free State. ART. 3. The Government of the Orange Free State hereby acknowledges the Basutos domiciled on the eastern side of the boundary line mentioned in Art. I to be British subjects. ART. 4. All natives who have been allowed or permitted by the Government of the Orange Free State to establish themselves on the Free State side of the boundary line mentioned in Art. I are hereby acknowledged to be subjects of the Orange Free State. ART. 5. Such Basutos, not falling within the terms of Art.4 or Art. 7, as at present live on the western side of the boundary line mentioned in Art. 1, shall be allowed to remain on the said side until the 31st day of July 1869, in order to enable them to reap and remove their crops; and after the said day, unless specially permitted by the Government of the Orange Free State to remain, shall be obliged to quit the territory of the said State. Such of them as may fail to comply herewith may be expelled by such means as the Government of the Orange Free State may think fit to adopt for that purpose. ART. 6. Upon the written request of the Chief Molapo to the Volksraad of the Orange Free State for himself and his people to be relieved from their subjection to that State, and to become British subjects, the Volksraad shall grant the said |