By the omission of those articles of the Convention of Pretoria, which assigned to
Her Majesty and to the British Resident certain specific powers and functions connected
with the internal government and the foreign relations of the Transvaal State, your
Government will be left fi"ee to govern the country without interference, and to conduct
its diplomatic intercourse and shape its foreign pohcy subject only to the requirement
-embodied in the fourth Article of the new draft, that any treaty with a foreign State shall
not have effect without the approval of the Queen.
Extract uit een brief van den Heer Chapaberlain to Sir Hercules Robinson.
Downing Street, February 4, 1896.
30. In the next place it is necessary that I should state clearly and unequivocally
what is the position which Her Majesty's Government claim to hold towards the
-Government of the South Afi'ican Republic.
31. Since the Convention of 1884, Her Majesty's Government have recognised the
South Afiican Republic as a free and independent Government as regards all its internal

.affairs not touched by that Convention.
Extract uit een telegram from the Secretary of State, London, to the High Commissioner,

Cape Town.
March 26, 1896.
Her Majesty's Government do not claim any right under the Convention to pre-
scribe the particular internal reforms which should be made in the South African
Republic.
Aanhangsel C.
Besluit van den Uitvoerenden Raad van den 27sten Juli, 1899.
Aan de orde Minute R. 9498/99, inhoudende correspondentie omtrent de ver
tegenwoordiging in den Eersten en Tweeden Volksraad voor de publikie delverijen ;
De Uitvoerende Raad

Lettende op Reggeringsmissive B.B. 1900/99, d.d. 19 Juni, 1899.
Lettende op Eerste Volksraadsbesluit Art. 377, d.d. 15 Juni, 1899.
Lettende op Regeeringsmissive B.B. 2157/99, d.d. 7 Juli, 1899.
