Adamantia: The Truth about the South African Diamond Fields: Or, A Vindication of the Right of the Orange Free State to that Territory, and an Analysis of British Diplomacy and Aggression which Has Resulted in Its Illegal Seizure by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope |
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Andries Waterboer annexation Annexure appointed arbitration Barkly Barkly's Bloemfontein Blue Book boers boundary line British Government Campbell lands Cape Colony Cape Parliament Cape Town Captain Adam Kok Captain Cornelius Kok Captain of Campbell Captain Waterboer Chapter claim Colonial Government Convention of 1854 Cornelius Kok Correspondence respecting dated David's Graf declare deed despatch diamond fields diggers dispute document dry diggings Earl Kimberley evidence fact farms Free State Government Governor Griqua Chief Griqua land Griqua Town HAY'S Hendrik honour jurisdiction Kafir Kok's Koranas late Cornelius Kok letter line from Ramah Majesty's Government Major Warden Meeting at Nooitgedacht ment Modder River never Orange Free Orange River Correspondence Orange River Government Orange River Sovereignty Orange River Territory Philippolis Pniel possession President Brand proclamation prove purchase quoted reply respecting the affairs Riet River Sir George Sir H sold South Africa tion treaty tribes Vaal River Vetberg line Vide Volksraad Waterboer's
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Page 52 - Crown, and declaring them, to all intents and purposes, a free and independent people, and their Government to be treated and considered thenceforth as a free and independent Government.
Page 237 - The British Government has no alliance whatever with any native chiefs or tribes to the northward of the Orange River, with the exception of the Griqua chief, Captain Adam Kok ; and Her Majesty's Government has no wish or intention to enter hereafter into any treaties which may be injurious or prejudicial to the interests of the Orange River Government.
Page 310 - VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to our trusty and -well-beloved Sir...
Page 54 - In order to promote mutual facilities and liberty to traders and travellers, as well in the British Possessions as in those of the Orange River Government and it being the earnest wish of Her Majesty's Government that a friendly intercourse between these territories should at all times subsist, and be promoted by every possible arrangement, a consul or agent...
Page 237 - River, the right to manage their own affairs, and to govern themselves, without any interference on the part of her Majesty the Queen's Government...
Page 52 - ... purpose of affording every facility for such transactions, the Chief, Adam Kok, having, for himself, concurred in and sanctioned the same. And with regard to those further alterations arising out of the proposed revision of relations with Captain Adam...
Page 57 - We do for that end publish this Our royal proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs, of the House of Commons are discharged from their meeting and attendance on the said...
Page 56 - February, 1848, by proclamation under his hand and the public seal of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope...
Page 54 - The Orange River Government shall have freedom to purchase their supplies of ammunition in any British colony or possession in South Africa, subject to the laws provided for the regulation of the sale and transit of ammunition in such colonies and possessions...
Page 62 - The Assistant Commissioners guarantee in the fullest manner, on the part of the British Government, to the Emigrant Farmers beyond the Vaal River, the right to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves according to their own laws, without any interference on the part of the British Government ; and that no encroachment shall be made by the said Government on the territory beyond, to the north of the Vaal River...