This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... and sell it to the mines at cost price, with the addition of an import duty of twenty shillings. A reduction in the railway tariff equal to a decrease of. 500,000 in the gross profits of the company. These were the principal suggestions; a few others of lesser importance may be passed over. The Government submitted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... and sell it to the mines at cost price, with the addition of an import duty of twenty shillings. A reduction in the railway tariff equal to a decrease of. 500,000 in the gross profits of the company. These were the principal suggestions; a few others of lesser importance may be passed over. The Government submitted the report to the Volksraad, which appointed a committee to examine the report and make suggestions. After long debates on the opinion of the Volksraad committee, it was at last moved and carried that the railway company should reduce its charges to the extent of reducing its takings by 200,000 and that the Government should endeavour to find means for a cheaper supply of dynamite to the mines. The Government succeeded in reducing the freights, especially for coal and food-stuffs and in diminishing the price of dynamite by five shillings a case. Moreover, an arrangement was concluded with Portugal by which large contingents of Kaffir labourers were obtained from Portuguese territory. Mr. Chamberlain afterwards accused the Government of disregarding the suggestions of its own Industrial Commission. I have mentioned the conflict between the judicial and State authorities, in other words, between the Government and the Volksraad on the one side and a section of the Supreme Court on the other. The dispute arose as follows. It was a generally accepted principle that the resolutions of the Volksraad were valid in law, even if they conflicted with the Constitution. The Supreme Court, particularly Judge Kotze, with whom the conflict now arose, had, in former law-suits, as for instance in the "Doms" case, accepted and acknowledged this principle. Suddenly, in a subsequent case, it refused to do so. Certain tracts of land in the Krugersdorp...
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Book. Octavo; 2 volumes; First published 1902, reissued 1970; G; Hardcover; Spine, grey with silver print; Boards in grey cloth, light soiling; Text blocks have spotting to edges and endpapers, else clean and tight; 2 vols. (ix, 543 pages), frontispiece (port. ) in each volume. 1360706. FP New Rockville Stock.
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