Signed at =Pretoria= London this =3rd day of August 1881,=

=HERCULES ROBINSON,= =President and High Commissioner= =EVELYN WOOD, Major General,= =Officer Administering the Government= =J.H. de VILLIERS.=

We, the undersigned, Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, =Martinus Wessel Pretorius=, and =Petrus Jacobus Joubert=, as =representatives delegates= of the =Transvaal Burghers=, South African Republic, do hereby agree to all the above conditions, reservations, and limitations, =under which self government has been restored to the inhabitants of the Transvaal Territory, subject to the enzerainty of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successsors, and we agree to accept the Government of the said Territory, with all rights and obligations thereto appertaining, on the 8th day of August 1881,= and we =promise and= undertake that this Convention shall be ratified by a =newly elected= Volksraad of the =Transvaal State= South African Republic within =three= six months from this date.

Signed at =Pretoria,= London, this =3rd day of August 1881=

  =S.J.P.  KRUEGER=
  =M.W.  PRETORIUS=
  =P.J.  JOUBERT=

APPENDIX B. (TRANSLATION).

THE ANNEXATION OF THE DIAMOND FIELDS.

In his speech at the opening of the Cape Parliament on the 18th April, 1872, Sir Henry Barkly said:—­

“The Sovereignty of Her Majesty was therefore proclaimed and brought into operation with the full consent of the diggers, and the Government has since been carefully and efficiently administered, notwithstanding considerable difficulties.”

The Diamond News of the 1st May, 1872, says, in referring to this speech:—­

“Of the three short paragraphs which immediately concern us, the first is one of self-congratulation—­the diggers and other inhabitants of Griqualand accept the British Government with heartfelt satisfaction.  Sir Henry says nothing of the unaccountable and daily increasing dissatisfaction with that Government, and perhaps he knows nothing of it, as it would be an act of suicide for the Commissioners, which they would not be guilty of, to report about the prevailing feelings.”

On the 30th May, 1872, the Diamond Fields said:—­

“There can be no doubt that the population of the Diamond Fields are strongly opposed to annexation to the Cape Colony.

“If anything like a plebiscite could be taken, the votes against being put under the Cape Government would be in the proportion of nine to one ... even the Free State Government would get two votes to one if the Cape Town Government were the only other candidate.”

In December, 1871, scarcely a month after the dispersion of the Free State authorities and the constitution of Sir Henry Barkly’s junta, lynch law broke out.  Lawlessness and general insecurity prevailed everywhere (see Diamond News, 17th January, 20th March, 17th July, 1872).