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APPENDIX C.
PROCLAMATION.
Embodying the final agreement between the Boers and Zulus.
Be it hereby made known that I, Dinizulu, King of the Zulu nation and of Zululand, with advice and consultation of William Grant, Repre- sentative and Adviser of the Zulu nation, and of my principal counsellors and chiefs, proclaim and make known that I, in conjunction with my said counsellors and chiefs, have granted to a certain number of South African farmers in Zululand, for their free use and as their property, a certain portion of Zululand, bounding on the South African Republic and the Reserve Territory, in extent more or less 1,355,000 (one million three hundred and fifty-five thousand) morgen, with the right to establish there an independent Republic, called the New Republic, and I further proclaim that from this date the remaining portion of Zululand and the Zulu nation shall be subject to the supervision of the said New Republic.
Given under my hand at Hlobane, in the New Republic, on this 16th day of August, 1884.
(Signed)
DINIZULU, WILLIAM GRANT, Representative and Adviser of the Zulu Nation.
APPENDIX D.
Resolutions of the Natal Legislature.
(No. 8, 1885.)
To His Excellency Sir HENRY ERNEST BULWER, Knight Grand Cross of the most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Natal, Vice-Admiral of the same, and Supreme Chief over the Native population. May it please Your ExcellenNCY,
The Legislative Council beg respectfully to transmit to your Excellency the following resolu- tions which passed the Council this 15th day of July, 1885, and to pray your Excellency to be pleased to communicate the same by telegraph to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies for his information.
1. That this Council recognises the fact that the interests of Zululand and of this Colony are inseparable.
2. That in the opinion of this House it is desirable that Her Majesty's rule should be at once extended over the whole of Zulu- land. (1504)
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