Mr. JAN DE BEER:  Yes; I see now Mr. Loveday is right, and I am wrong.  The law does say what Mr. Loveday said.  It must be altered.

The debate was closed on the third day, and Mr. Otto’s motion to accept the report of the majority of the Committee, to refuse the request of the memoralists, and to refer them to the existing laws, was carried by sixteen votes to eight.

APPENDIX G.

TERMS OF DR. JAMESON’S SURRENDER.

Sir Hercules Robinson to Mr. Chamberlain.

Received April 6, 1896.

  Government House, Capetown,
               March 16, 1896.

SIR,

I have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty’s Acting Agent at Pretoria, enclosing a communication from the Government of the South African Republic, accompanied by sworn declarations, respecting the terms of the surrender of Dr. Jameson’s force, a summary of which documents I telegraphed to you on the 12th instant.

At my request, Lieutenant-General Goodenough has perused these sworn declarations, and informs me ‘that,’ in his opinion, ’Jameson’s surrender was unconditional, except that his and his people’s lives were to be safe so far as their immediate captors were concerned.’

I have, etc.,
HERCULES ROBINSON,
Governor and High Commissioner.

Enclosed in above letter.

From H. Cloete, Pretoria, to the High Commissioner, Capetown.

Pretoria, March 11th, 1896.

SIR,

I have the honour to enclose for the information of your Excellency a letter this day received from the Government, a summary of which I have already sent your Excellency by telegraph.

I have, etc.,
H. CLOETE.

Department of Foreign Affairs,
Government Office, Pretoria,
March 10, 1896.

Division A., R.A., 1056/1896,
                B., 395/96.

HONOURABLE SIR,

I am instructed to acknowledge the receipt of the telegram from his Excellency the High Commissioner to you, dated 6th instant, forwarded on by you to his Honour the State President, and I am now instructed to complete with further data my letter to you of 4th instant, B.B., 257/96, which I herewith confirm, containing the information which the Government then had before it respecting the surrender, and which was furnished in view of your urgent request for an immediate reply.

In order to leave no room for the slightest misunderstanding, and to put an end to all false representations, the Government has summoned not only Commandant Cronje, but also Commandant Potgieter, Commandant Malan, Field-Cornet Maartens, Assistant Field-Cornet Van Vuuren, and others, whose evidence appears to be of the greatest importance, and places the matter in a clear and plain light.

The information which the Government has found published in the papers is of the following purport: