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Title: Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain
A Documentary Perspective Of The Causes Of The War In South Africa

Author: Various

Editor: Hugh Williams and Frederick Charles Hicks

Release Date: November 23, 2005 [EBook #17136]

Language: English

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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_.

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, w