exceeding one month, the contravention of the Articles 4, 5, 12, 14, 17, 20, 25, and 37, as also all other contraventions, for which no special punishment is fixed. 65. All Laws in conflict with this Law are hereby repealed. 66. The amended and additional Articles of this Law will come into force on the 15th of July, 1894. Netherlands South African Railway Company (Railway from Delagoa Bay to the South African Republic) Freights may be paid either at the station of despatch or at the station of destination. Payment of import duties levied by the South. African Republic can be made on arrival at Pretoria and Johannesburg, also when the clearing has taken place at Lourenço Marques. The Regulations and Special Regulations passed and ratified by the Government of the South African Republic are applicable to this traffic. Tariffs The through Traffic Tariffs from Lourenço Marques to the various stations in the South African Republic are as follows per 100 lbs. : : d. d. 19 25 32 Krokodilpoort 8གླ°YN&བཱ°85b&ú&8 22 28 35 38 43 46 50 53 56 59 60 63 65 68 72 77 89 92 50 Balmoral. Bronkhorstspruit Elandsrivier 97 ΙΟΙ 105 109 The goods of the intermediate class and the normal goods can be conveyed at sender's risk from Lourenço Marques to the stations between Lourenço Marques and Middelburg, Middelburg included, at a reduction of 5 per cent. Special tariffs have been fixed: Ist. For grain from Delagoa Bay to Pretoria and Johannesburg, and vice versâ, per 100 lbs., 5s. 2nd. For coal from any station to any station between station at Balmoral and Lourenço Marques, 125. per ton of 2,000 lbs., provided empty wagons are obtainable. In all the above-mentioned tariffs the cartage costs at Pretoria and Johannesburg are included. Customs Tariff All goods imported through Lourenço Marques, the port of Delagoa Bay, for the Transvaal are subject to a transit duty of 3 per cent. except the following articles, which are entirely free from any transit duty, viz. :—-Animals (living), concrete, lime, bank notes or other paper currency and coin specie, reading and music books, maps and printed school requisites, newspapers, pamphlets and periodicals, coal and coke, boats, grain bags of Portuguese produce, fresh fruit, tree, flower and vegetable seeds, ice, tools, music and other instruments, bricks and stones for building, flour, mealie meal, mining and agricultural machinery. All goods arriving here free of duty must be cleared within twenty-four hours; all other goods subject to 3 per cent. transit duty must be cleared within three months after arrival of vessel, without being subject to an extra charge. Transit duty is payable on total invoice amount, including freight and other charges; if invoice only shows net value, 25 per cent. will be added to this amount. There are no wharfage dues payable at this port. British South Africa Company Though, strictly speaking, the Chartered Company -or, to give it its full title, the British South Africa Company-has, or should have had, nothing to do with the Transvaal, no apology is needed, in the light of recent events, for laying its Charter, obtained on October 29, 1889, before the public. The following is the full text:— VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith. To all whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas, a humble petition has been presented to us in our council by the most Noble James, Duke of Abercorn, Companion of the most honourable Order of the Bath; the most Noble Alexander William George, Duke of Fife, Knight of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle, Privy Coun cillor; the Right Honourable Edric Frederick, Lord Gifford, V.C.; Cecil John Rhodes, of Kimberley, in the Cape Colony, Member of the Executive Council, and of the House of Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; Alfred Beit, of 29 Holborn Viaduct, London, merchant; Albert Henry George Grey, of Howick, Northumberland, esquire; and George Cawston, of 18 Lennox Gardens, London, esquire, barrister-at-law. And whereas the said petition states amongst other things: That the Petitioners and others are associated for the purpose of forming a company or association, to be incorporated, if to us should seem fit, for the objects in the said petition set forth under the corporate name of the British South Africa Company. That the existence of a powerful British company, controlled by those of our subjects in whom we have confidence, and having its principal field of operations in that region of South Africa lying to the north of Bechuanaland and to the west of Portuguese East Africa, would be advantageous to the commercial and other interests of our subjects in the United Kingdom and our Colonies. That the petitioners desire to carry into effect divers concessions and agreements which have been made by certain of the chiefs and tribes inhabiting the said region, and such other concessions, agreements, grants, and treaties as the petitioners may hereafter obtain within the said region or elsewhere in Africa, with the view of promoting trade, com |