Select Documents Relating to the Unification of South Africa by Arthur Percival Newton

Select Documents Relating to the Unification of South Africa by Arthur Percival Newton

Author:Arthur Percival Newton [Newton, Arthur Percival]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, History
ISBN: 9781136253409
Google: F7VwSwAACAAJ
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-10-28T04:00:00+00:00


1 This was in reference to the incident that formed the origin of the Slachter’s Nek rebellion in 1815–16. Frederick Bezuidenhout defied the Judges of the Circuit Court, at Graaf-Reinet, in 1815, and was shot in the act of resisting the Under-Sheriff, who had been sent to apprehend him.

LVIII. COMMISSION APPOINTING THE BIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SELBORNE TO BE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA, 15 March, 1905.

[House of Commons Papers (1905), 130, pp. 59–60.]

COMMISSION PASSED UNDER THE ROYAL SIGN MANUAL AND SIGNET, APPOINTING THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OP SELBORNE, P.C., TO BE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

Dated 15th March, 1905.

EDWARD B. & I.

EDWARD THE SEVENTH, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India: To Our Bight Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cousin and Councillor William Waldegrave, Earl of Selborne, Greeting.

We do, by this Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet, appoint you, the said William Waldegrave, Earl of Selborne, to be, during Our pleasure, Our High Commissioner for South Africa, and as such High Commissioner to act in Our name and on Our behalf, and in all respects to represent Our Crown and authority in matters occurring in South Africa beyond the limits of Our Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, and beyond the limits of any other place or territory in South Africa, in and over which We may from time to time have appointed a Governor.

Appointment of the Earl of Selborne to be High Commissioner.

II And We do hereby authorise, empower, and command you to exercise in Our name and on Our behalf all jurisdiction, power, and authority in regard to Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Southern Rhodesia, and Barotziland—North-Western Ehodesia, or elsewhere, which are now or shall hereafter be vested in Our said High Commissioner.

Powers and duties of High Commissioner.

III. And We do hereby authorise, empower, and command you, as such Our High Commissioner, to transact in Our name and on Our behalf all business which may lawfully be transacted by you with the Representative of any Foreign Power in South Africa, subject nevertheless to such instructions as you may from time to time receive from Us or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. And We do require you, by all proper means, to invite and obtain the co-operation of the Government of any Foreign Power in South Africa towards the preservation of peace and safety in South Africa, and the general welfare and advancement of its territories and peoples.

High Commissioner empowered to transact all lawful business with the representative of any Foreign Power in South Africa.

IV. And We do hereby authorise, empower, and command you as such Our High Commissioner, in Our name and on Our behalf, to take all such measures, and to do all such things in relation to the Native Tribes in South Africa with which it is expedient that We should have relations, and



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