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LEES SELF DIE VREDESVERDRAG VAN 1902
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ARMY HEADQUARTERS, SOUTH AFRICA.
General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum Commanding in Chief
AND
His Excellency Lord Milner High Commissioner on behalf of the BRITISH GOVERNMENT
AND
Messrs SW Burger, FW Reitz, Louis Botha, JH de la Rey, LJ Meyer and JC Krogh acting as the GOVERNMENT of the
SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC
AND
Messrs WJC Brebner, CR De Wet, JBM Hertzog and CH Olivier acting as the GOVERNMENT of the ORANGE FREE
STATE on behalf of their respective BURGHERS.
Desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on the following Articles.
- The BURGHER Forces in the Field will forthwith lay down their Arms, handing over all Guns, Rifles, and Munitions
of War, in their possession or under their control, and desist from any further resistance to the Authority of HIS
MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII whom they recognise as their lawful SOVEREIGN.
The manner and details of this surrender will be arranged between Lord Kitchener and Commandant General Botha,
Assistant Commandant General De la Rey, and Chief Commandant De Wet.
- Burghers in the field outside the limits of the TRANSVAAL and ORANGE RIVER COLONY, and all Prisoners of War
at present outside South Africa, who are burghers, will, on duly declaring their acceptance of the position of subjects of
HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII, be gradually brought back to their homes as soon as transport can be provided and
their means of subsistence ensured.
- The BURGHERS so surrendering or so returning will not be deprived of their personal liberty, or their property.
- No Proceedings CIVIL or CRIMINAL will be taken against any of the BURGHERS so surrendering or so returning for
any Acts in connection with the prosecution of the War. The benefit of this Clause will not extend to certain Acts contrary
to the usage of War which have been notified by the Commander in Chief to the Boer Generals, and which shall be tried
by Court Martial immediately after the close of hostilities.
- The DUTCH language will be taught in Public Schools in the Transvaal and the ORANGE RIVER COLONY where the
Parents of the Children desire it, and will be allowed in COURTS of LAW when necessary for the better and more
effectual Administration of Justice.
- The Possession of Rifles will be allowed in the TRANSVAAL and ORANGE RIVER COLONY to persons requiring
them for their Protection, on taking out a license according to Law. (terug na
"Dat die ondernemings")
- Artikel No.7 (terug na Tuisblad of
boontoe)
MILITARY ADMINISTRATION in the TRANSVAAL and ORANGE RIVER COLONY will at the earliest possible date be
succeded by CIVIL GOVERNMENT and, as soon as circumstances permit, Representative Institutions, leading up to
self-Government, will be introduced.
- The question of granting the Franchise to Natives will not be decided until after the introduction of Self-Government.
- No special Tax will be imposed on Landed Property in the TRANSVAAL and ORANGE RIVER COLONY to defray the
Expensesof the War.
- As soon as conditions permit, a Commission, on which the local inhabitants will be repressented, will be appointed
in each District of the TRANSVAAL and ORANGE RIVER COLONY, under the Presidency of a Magistrate or other Official,
for the purpose of assisting the restoration of the people to their homes and supplying those who, owing to war losses,
are unable to provide for themselves, with food, shelter, and the necessary amount of seed, stock, implements etc,
indispensible to the resumption of their normal occupations.
His Majesty's Government will place at the disposal of these Commissions a sum of three million pounds sterling for
the above purposes, and will allow all notes, issued ander Law No.1 of 1900 of the Government of the SOUTH AFRICAN
REPUBLIC, and all receipts, given by the officers in the field of the late Republics or under their orders, to be presented
to a JUDICIAL COMMISSION, which will be appointed by the Government, and if such notes and receipts are found by
this Commission to have been duly issued in return for valuable consideration they will be received by the first named
Commission as evidence of War losses suffered by the persons to whom they were originally given. In addition to the
above named free grant of three million pounds, His Majesty's Government will be prepared to make advances as
loans for the same purpose, free of interest for two years, and afterwards repayable over a period of years with 3 per
cent interest. No foreigner or rebel will be entitled to the benefit of this Clause.
Signed at Pretoria this thirty first day of May in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Two.
[ Handtekeninge van Britte en Boere Generaals word binnekort bygevoeg ]
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