SUPPLEMENT TO THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE JULY, 1900 SELECTED OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN Republic AND GREAT BRITAIN. A documentary perspective of the causes of the war in South Africa. EDITED BY HUGH WILLIAMS, M. A., B. L. S., LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AND FREDERICK CHARLES HICKS, Ph. B., LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. PHILADELPHIA: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE ENGLAND: P. S. King & Son, 2 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, S. W. FRANCE: L. Larose, rue Soufflot 22, Paris. GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W. ITALY: Direzione del Giornale degli Economisti, Rome, via Monte Savello, Palazzo Orsini. SPAIN: E. Capdeville, 9 Plazo de Santa Ana Madrid. Copyright, 1900, by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Publications of the Academy The Academy has published from time to time the following Larger Publications: History, Theory and Technique of Statistics. By AUGUST MEITZEN; translated by ROLAND P. FALKNER. Pp. 243. Price, cloth, $1.50; half-leather, $2.00. Inland Waterways, Their Relation to Transportation. By E. R. JOHNSON. Pp. 164. Price, paper, $1.00; half-leather, $2.00. The History of Political Economy. By GUSTAV COHN; translated by JOSEPH A. HILL. Theory of Sociology. Pp. 141. Price, paper, $1.00; half-leather, $2.00. By FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS. Pp. 80. Price, paper, 50c.; cloth, $1.50. Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Academy. The Outlines of Sociology. Pp. 216. Price, paper, $1.00; cloth, $1.50. By LUDWIG GUMPLOWICZ; translated by FREDERICK W. MOORE. Corporations and Public Welfare. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy. Pp. 208. Price, paper, $1.00; cloth, $1.50. Complete List of Publications Sent on Application American Academy of Political and Social Science STATION B, PHILADELPHIA PREFACE. The universal interest in the affairs of the South African Republic is responsible for the idea that a selection of documents illustrative of the South African controversy will be appreciated by American readers. The documents which are here reprinted are by no means unobtainable; but, to the general reader, they have been hitherto quite inaccessible. Only the largest public libraries have the proper sources of information, and even with these books at hand the student has been forced to delve in a mass of irrelevant material for the hidden object of his desire. The present compilation has been made in the hope of meeting the immediate demands of the public. To avoid cumbersomeness, many important documents have necessarily been omitted; yet as far as possible, the editors have given a complete series of documents. The arrangement is partly chronological, and we hope altogether logical. Commencing with the London Convention of 1884, which defines the status of the South African Republic in its relations with Great Britain, we follow with the revised Constitution of 1889, and its complementary law of June 23, 1890, which granted representation in a second Volksraad to burghers of two years' standing. The latest legislation concerning the right of franchise is given in the enactment of July, 1899. This law, together with negotiations looking toward further concessions to the Uitlander population forms the subject of our third chapter. No agreement having been reached, and numerous complications having arisen, conspicuously the movements of British troops, the Ultimatum of President Kruger on October 9, precipitated a state of war. In presenting this Ultimatum President Kruger knew that the Republic would not have to fight alone, but that there would be practically a war of the South African Dutch |