en dezelfde bevoegdheid voor de Regering als in art. 15 van de Begrooting is bepaald.

19. Eenmaal per drie maanden houdt de Districtsraad in het dorp waar de Landdrost zijn zetel heeft, een gewone vergadering. Buitengewone vergaderingen zoo dikwijls zulks noodig mogt zijn.

20. De leden hebben regt op vergoeding van reis- en verblijfkosten naar tarief van 1882.

21. Drie 1 leden maken met den Landdrost een quorum uit.

22. Deze wet moet herzien worden in de zitting van den Volksraad van 1886, ten einde de nieuwe verkiezing voor 1887 te kunnen regelen.' 23. Deze Wet treedt in werking 1 Augustus 1883.

Locale Wetten der Z.A. Rep. I. 1189.

No. 203. GOUVERNEMENTS KENNISGEVING, No. 211.

[1 Oct. 1883.]

Naardien het in eenige kantoren de gewoonte blijkt geworden te zijn dat ambtenaren zich ter bekoming van eenigerlei informatie van welken aard ook, ter eerste instantie wenden tot het Gouvernementskantoor direct, waardoor referenten van dit Bureau naar andere Departementen herhaaldelijk noodzakelijk worden vóór de verlangde inlichtingen kunnen worden verschaft, en het Gouvernementskantoor aldus onnoodig tot een medium wordt gemaakt voor het voeren van the part of the Government as is provided for in art. 15 with regard to the Estimates.

19. Once in three months the District Council shall hold an ordinary meeting in the town where the Landdrost is stationed. Special meetings shall be held as often as may be

necessary.

20. The members shall have a right to receive payment of their travelling expenses and expenses of living, according to the tariff of 1882.

21. Three1 members in addition to the Landdrost shall form a quorum.

22. This law shall be revised during the 1886 session of the Volksraad, in order to be able to arrange for the election of 1887.2

23. This law shall take effect on 1 August 1883.

No. 203. GOVERNMENT NOTICE, No. 211. [1 Oct. 1883.]

As it appears to have become the custom in some offices for officials to direct their requests for information on all kinds of subjects to the Government Office in the first instance, by which custom it repeatedly becomes necessary for this Office to refer to other Departments before the desired information can be obtained, which makes the Government Office an unnecessary medium for conducting correspondence which 1 Changed to two by Law No. 1, 1887.

In accordance with this provision Law No. 1, 1887, provided for the holding of subsequent elections.

correspondentie die op meer doelmatige wijze en ten einde de afdoening der zaak te bevorderen, kan gevoerd worden met de desbetreffende departementen direct, zoo wordt bij dezen ter algemeene informatie bekend gemaakt dat de Landdrosten in de respective Districten en ook andere beambten, zich hebben te wenden tot het kantoor waar de gewenschte inlichtingen kunnen worden verschaft zonder tusschenkomst van dit Bureau, tenzij zulks om bestaande redenen niet wenschelijk worden geacht of de verlangde inlichtingen niet anders kunnen verkregen worden.

Informatie in zake regtspleging, regts- of wetsquesties zal derhalve moeten ingewonnen worden bij ZEd. Gestr. den Staatsprocureur, in zake Naturellen bij den WelEd. Heer Superintendent van Naturelle Zaken; in krijgszaken bij den Commandant-Generaal; in zake het onderwijs bij den Superintendent van Onderwijs; in zake Rekeningen of 't houden van Boeken en Administratie bij den Auditeur- en Thesaurier-Generaal; in zake Gronden, Grondbrieven, Transporten, Inspecties en dergelijke, bij den Registrateur van Acten of LandmeterGeneraal; in zake het Postwezen bij den Postmeester-Generaal, enz. enz. Particuliere personen worden vriendelijk verzocht zich eveneens zoveel mogelijk aan dezen regel te houden. Op last,

W. EDUARD BOK, Staatssecretaris, Locale Wetten der Z.A. Rep. I. 1232.

can be carried on in a more suitable manner and with a view to securing greater finality by direct consultation with the Departments concerned; therefore it is hereby notified for general information that the Landdrosts in the respective Districts as also other officials are to direct their enquiries to the Office where the desired information can be supplied without the intervention of this Office, unless for existing reasons this is not deemed advisable or the desired information can not be obtained in another way.

Information concerning the administration of justice, legal matters and points of law must therefore be procured from the State Attorney; regarding Natives from the Superintendent of Native Affairs; regarding military matters from the Commandant - General; regarding education from the Superintendent of Education; regarding Accounts or the keeping of Books and Administration from the Auditor and TreasurerGeneral; regarding Lands, Deeds of Sale of Lands, Transfers, Inspections and such-like, from the Registrar of Deeds or the Surveyor - General; regarding the Postal Service from the Postmaster-General, etc. etc.

Private individuals are also kindly requested to adhere to this rule as far as possible.

No. 204.

THE LONDON CONVENTION. [27 Feb. 1884.] WHEREAS the Government of the Transvaal State, through its delegates, consisting of Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

(President of the said State), and Stephanus Jacobus du Toit (Superintendent of Education), and Nicholas Jacobus Smit (a member of the Volksraad), have represented that the Convention signed at Pretoria on the 3rd day of August 1881, and ratified by the Volksraad of the said State on the 25th October 1881, contains certain provisions which are inconvenient, and imposes burdens and obligations from which the said State is desirous to be relieved, and that the south-western boundaries fixed by the said Convention should be amended, with a view to promote the peace and good order of the said State, and of the countries adjacent thereto; and whereas Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has been pleased to take the said representations into consideration.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty has been pleased to direct, and it is hereby declared that the following articles of the new Convention, signed on behalf of Her Majesty by Her Majesty's High Commissioner in South Africa, the Right Honourable Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, . . Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and on behalf of the Transvaal State (which shall hereinafter be called the South African Republic) by the above-named delegates, ... shall, when ratified by the Volksraad of the South African Republic, be substituted for the articles embodied in the Convention of 3rd August 1884, which latter, pending such ratification, shall continue in full force and effect.

ARTICLE 1. [Boundaries of the South African Republic given here.]

2. The Government of the South African Republic will strictly adhere to the boundaries defined in the first article of the Convention, and will do its utmost to prevent any of its inhabitants from making any encroachments upon lands beyond the said boundaries. The Government of the South African Republic will appoint Commissioners upon the eastern and western borders whose duty it will be strictly to guard against irregularities and all trespassing over the boundaries. Her Majesty's Government will, if necessary, appoint Commissioners in the native territories outside the eastern and western borders of the South African Republic to maintain order and prevent encroachments.

Her Majesty's Government and the Government of the South African Republic will each appoint a person to proceed together to beacon off the amended south-west boundary as described in article one of this Convention; and the President of the Orange Free State shall be requested to appoint a referee to whom the said persons shall refer any questions in which they may disagree respecting the interpretation of the said

article, and the decision of such referee thereon shall be final. The arrangement already made under the terms of article nineteen of the Convention of Pretoria of the 3rd August 1881, between the owners of the farms Grootfontein and Valleifontein on the one hand, and the Barolong authorities on the other, by which a fair share of the water supply of the said farms shall be allowed to flow undisturbed to the said Barolongs, shall continue in force.

3. If a British officer is appointed to reside at Pretoria or elsewhere within the South African Republic to discharge functions analogous to those of a Consular Officer he will receive the protection and assistance of the Republic.

4. The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic until the same has been approved by Her Majesty the Queen.

Such approval shall be considered to have been granted if Her Majesty's Government shall not, within six months after receiving a copy of such treaty (which shall be delivered to them immediately upon its completion), have notified that the conclusion of such treaty is in conflict with the interest of Great Britain or of any of Her Majesty's possessions in South Africa.

5. The South African Republic will be liable for any balance which may still remain due of the debts for which it was liable at the date of annexation, to wit, the Cape Commercial Bank Loan, the Railway Loan, and the Orphan Chamber Debt, which debts will be a first charge upon the revenues of the Republic. The South African Republic will moreover be liable to Her Majesty's Government for £250,000, which will be a second charge upon the revenues of the Republic.

6. The debt due as aforesaid by the South African Republic to Her Majesty's Government will bear interest at the rate of three and a half per cent., from the date of the ratification of this Convention, and shall be repayable by a payment for interest and sinking fund of six pounds and ninepence per £100 per annum, which will extinguish the debt in twenty-five years. The said payment of six pounds and ninepence per £100 shall be payable half-yearly, in British currency, at the close of each half-year from the date of such ratification; provided always that the South African Republic shall be at liberty at the close of any half-year to pay off the whole or any portion of the outstanding debt.

Interest at the rate of three and a half per cent. on the debt as standing under the Convention of Pretoria shall as

heretofore be paid to the date of the ratification of this Convention.

7. All persons who held property in the Transvaal on the 8th day of August 1881, and still hold the same, will continue to enjoy the rights of property which they have enjoyed since the 12th April 1877. No person who has remained loyal to Her Majesty during the late hostilities shall suffer any molestation by reason of his loyalty; or be liable to any criminal prosecution or civil action for any part taken in connection with such hostilities; and all such persons will have full liberty to reside in the country, with enjoyment of all civil rights and protection for their persons and property.

8. The South African Republic renews the declaration made in the Sand River Convention, and in the Convention of Pretoria, that no slavery or apprenticeship partaking of slavery will be tolerated by the Government of the said Republic.

9. There will continue to be complete freedom of religion and protection from molestation for all denominations, provided the same be not inconsistent with morality and good order; and no disability shall attach to any person in regard to rights of property by reason of the religious opinions which he holds.

10. [British Resident to receive assistance in caring for graves of British soldiers.]

II. All grants or titles issued at any time by the Transvaal Government in respect of land outside the boundary of the South African Republic, as defined in article one, shall be considered invalid and of no effect, except in so far as any such grant or title relates to land that falls within the boundary of the South African Republic; and all persons holding any such grant so considered invalid and of no effect will receive from the Government of the South African Republic such compensation, either in land or in money, as the Volksraad shall determine. In all cases in which any native chiefs or other authorities outside the said boundaries have received any adequate consideration from the Government of the South African Republic for land excluded from the Transvaal by the first article of this Convention, or where permanent improvements have been made on the land, the High Commissioner will recover from the native authorities fair compensation for the loss of the land thus excluded, or of the permanent improvements thereon.

12. The independence of the Swazies, within the boundary line of Zwaziland, as indicated in the first article of this Convention, will be fully recognised.

13. Except in pursuance of any treaty or engagement