Excerpt from Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain, Vol. 8 The universal interest in the afiairs of the South African Republic is responsible for the idea that a selection of docu ments 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 necas sarily 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. Com mencing 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, which granted representation in a second Volksraad to burghers of two years' standing. The latest legislation concerning the right Of franchise is given in the enactment of July, 1899. This law, together with negotiations looking toward further concessions to the Uitlander population forms the subject of our third chapter. NO agreement having been reached, and numerous complications having arisen, conspicuously the movements of British troops, the Ultimatum Of Presi dent Kruger Ou October 9, precipitated a state Of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.