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of our Council, shall be endorsed on this, our Charter, and be conclusive evidence of such approval, and on the Deed of Settlement, and such Deed of Settlement shall take effect from the date of such approval, and shall be binding upon the Company, its members, officers, and servants, and for all other purposes whatsoever.

27. The provisions of the Deed of Settlement or of any supplementary Deed for the time being in force, may be from time to time repealed, varied, or added to by a supplementary Deed, made and executed in such manner as the Deed of Settlement prescribes. Provided that the provisions of any such Deed relative to the Official Director shall not be repealed, varied, or added to without the express approval of our Secretary of State.

28. The Members of the Company shall be individually liable for the debts, contracts, engagements, and liabilities of the Company to the extent only of the amount, if any, for the time being unpaid, on the shares held by them respectively.

29. Until such Deed of Settlement as aforesaid takes effect the said James, Duke of Abercorn, shall be the President; the said Alexander William George, Duke of Fife, shall be VicePresident; and the said Edric Frederick, Lord Gifford, Cecil John Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Albert Henry George Grey, and George Cawston shall be the Directors of the Company; and may on behalf of the Company do all things necessary or proper to be done under this, our Charter, by or on behalf of the Company: Provided always that, notwithstanding anything contained in the Deed of Settlement of the Company, the said James, Duke of Abercorn, Alexander William George, Duke of Fife, and Albert Henry George Grey, shall not be subject to retire from office in accordance with its provisions, but shall be and remain Directors of the Company until death, incapacity to act, or resignation, as the case may be.

30. And we do further will, ordain, and declare that this, our Charter, shall be acknowledged by our Governors, and our naval and military officers, and our Consuls, and our other officers in our colonies and possessions, and on the high seas, and elsewhere, and they shall severally give full force and effect to this our Charter, and shall recognise and be in all things aiding to the Company and its officers.

31. And we do further will, ordain, and declare that this our Charter shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for, and to the best advantage of, the Company, as well in our Courts in our United Kingdom, and in our Courts in our colonies or possessions, and in our Courts in foreign countries or elsewhere, notwithstanding that there may appear to be in this our Charter any non-recital, mis-recital, uncertainty, or imperfection.

32. And we do further will, ordain, and declare that this our Charter shall subsist and continue valid, notwithstanding any lawful change in the name of the Company or in the Deed of Settlement thereof, such change being made with the previous approval of our Secretary of State, signified under his hand.

33. And we do further will, ordain, and declare that it shall be lawful for us, our heirs, and successors, and we do hereby expressly reserve to ourselves, our heirs, and successors, the right and power by writing, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, at the end of twenty-five years from the date of this our Charter, and at the end of every succeeding period of ten years, to add to, alter, or repeal any of the provisions of this our Charter, or to enact other provisions in substitution for or in addition to any of its existing provisions: Provided that the right and power thus reserved shall be exercised only in relation to so much of this our Charter as relates to administrative and public matters. And we do further expressly reserve to ourselves, our heirs, and successors, the right to take over any buildings or works belonging to the Company, and used exclusively or mainly for administrative or public purposes, on payment to the Company of such reasonable compensation as may be agreed, or as failing agreement may be settled by the Commissioners of our Treasury. And we do further appoint, direct, and declare, that any such writing, under the said Great Seal, shall have full effect, and be binding upon the Company, its members, officers, and servants, and all other persons, and shall be of the same force, effect, and validity, as if its provisions had been part of and contained in these presents.

34. Provided always, and we do further declare, that nothing in this our Charter shall be deemed or taken in anywise to limit or restrict the exercise of any of our rights or powers with

reference to the protection of any territories or with reference to the government thereof, should we see fit to include the same within our dominións.

35. And we do, lastly, will, ordain, and declare, without prejudice to any Power, to repeal this our Charter, by law belonging to us, our heirs, and successors, or to any of our Courts, Ministers, or officers, independently of this present declaration and reservation, that in case, at any time, it is made to appear to us, in our Council, that the Company has substantially failed to observe and conform to the provisions of this our Charter, or that the Company is not exercising its powers under the concessions, agreements, grants, and treaties aforesaid, so as to advance the interests which the Petitioners have represented to us to be likely to be advanced by the grant of this our Charter, it shall be lawful for us, our heirs, and successors, and we do hereby expressly reserve and take to ourselves, our heirs, and successors, the right and power, by writing, under the Great Seal of our United Kingdom, to revoke this our Charter, and to revoke and annul the privileges, powers, and rights hereby granted to the Company.

In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent.

Witness ourself at Westminster, the 29th day of October, in the fifty-third year of our reign.

By warrant under the Queen's sign manual.

MUIR MACKENZIE.

ADDENDUM.

THE ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

THAT part of the Anglo-German Agreement signed at Berlin on July 1, 1891, and concerning South-West Africa is as follows:

Article III.

'In South-West Africa the sphere in which the exercise of influence is reserved to Germany is bounded

(1) To the south by a line commencing at the mouth of

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the Orange River, and ascending the north bank of that river to the point of its intersection by the 20th degree of east longitude.

'(2) To the east by a line commencing at the above-named point, and following the 20th degree of east longitude to the point of its intersection by the 22nd parallel of south latitude, it runs eastwards along the parallel to the point of its intersection by the 21st degree of east longitude; thence it follows that degree northward to a point of its intersection by the 18th parallel of south latitude: it runs eastward along that parallel until it reaches the river Chobe, and descends the centre of the main channel of that river to its junction with the Zambesi, when it terminates. It is understood that under this arrangement Germany shall have free access from her Protectorate to the Zambesi by a strip of territory which shall at no point be less than twenty English miles in width.

'The sphere in which the exercise of influence is reserved to Great Britain is bounded to the west and north-west by the above-mentioned line. It includes Lake Ngami.

The course of the above boundary is traced in general accordance with a map officially prepared for the British Government in 1889. The delimitation of the southern boundary of the British territory of Walvisch Bay is reserved for arbitration, unless it shall be settled by the consent of the two Powers within two years from the date of the conclusion of this agreement. The two Powers agree that, pending such settlement, the passage of the subjects and the transit of goods of both Powers through the territory now in dispute, shall be free; and the treatment of their subjects in that territory shall be in all respects equal. No dues shall be levied on goods in transit. Until a settlement shall be effected the territory shall be considered natural.'

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GENERAL INDEX.

ABERCORN, Duke of, 27.
Aberdeen, 135, 157.
Act, the Voluntary, 175.
Adamantia, 150.
Adderley, Sir Ch., 18.
Addo Bush, 35, 72, 86.
Adelaide, 147.

Africa, Equatorial, 245.
Afrikander 'Taal,' 189.
Afrikanders, 31.

Agricultural Shows, 227.
Agulhas banks, 61, 127, 226.
Current, 36, 37, 85.

Albany, 101, 136, 142, 231.
Albuquerque, 160.
Aldebaran, 218.

Alexander, Sir W., 8.

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Assembly, Legislative, 106, 167.

Astronomer Royal, 207.

Atherstone, Dr., 151.

Aughrabies, Falls of, 70, 301.

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