Progress of South Africa in the Century

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Linscott Publishing Company, 1901 - 524 strán (strany)

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Strana 436 - ... will not be subject, in respect of their persons or property, or in respect of their commerce or industry, to any taxes, whether general or local, other than those which are or may be imposed upon citizens of the said Republic.
Strana 436 - 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...
Strana 436 - All persons, other than natives, conforming themselves to the laws of the South African Republic (a) will have full liberty, with their families, to enter, travel, or reside in any part of the South African Republic...
Strana 388 - They would deplore any encroachment on the Griqua territory by the Republics, which would open to the Boers an extended field for slave-dealing and probably lead to oppression of the natives and disturbance of the peace. At the same time they had no wish to increase the territories of the colonies, particularly in view of the unsatisfactory state of the government of the Cape. Should, however, the Cape accept full responsibility...
Strana 108 - They were only a little over thirty thousand in number, and it seemed absurd that such a small body of people should be permitted to perpetuate ideas and customs that were not English in a country that had become part of the British empire.
Strana 522 - Presidents of the United States in the Century (from Jefferson to Fillmore).
Strana 148 - ... standing. They were to be appointed by the crown, and were not to hold any other office. In civil cases the chief justice and two puisne judges were to form a quorum, and there was to be a right of appeal to the privy council if the matter in dispute was over .1
Strana 378 - Australia, and from that country a party of experienced miners arrived at Natal, expecting to find gold digging an established industry. Some of them were sent to the Tati by a Natal company, others were employed to prospect for gold in that colony. In England, the London and Limpopo Mining Company was formed in 1868, and in April of the following year Sir John Swinburne, its chief manager, reached the Tati with expensive machinery. At this time more than a hundred European diggers were at work,...
Strana ii - One, by the Bradley-Garretson Co., Limited, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered, according to Act of Parliament of Canada, In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and One, by the Bradley-Garretson Co., Limited, In the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.
Strana 116 - ... house, and who knew nothing of refinement after the English town pattern. His code of honour, too, was in some respects different from that of modern Englishmen, but it contained at least one principle common to the noblest minds in all sections of the race to which he belonged: to die rather than do that which is degrading. And for him it would have been unutterably degrading to have surrendered to the pandours. Instead of doing so he fired at them.

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