III.  Afrika.  948  151.  Or.-Riv.-Col.

in  Council  shall  cease  to  be  operative  either  entirely  or  in  respect  of  the  service  so
terminated,  as  the  case  may  be,  without  prejudice  to  anything  lawfully  done  thereunder.


(3.)  Allthe  property  administered  by  or  on  the  advice  of  the  said  Council,  and
all  its  rights  and  liabilities  in  connection  therewith,  shall,  on  the  termination  of  the
said  Council,  or  on  the  termination  of  any  service  administered  by  or  on  its  advice,
in  so  far  as  such  property,  rights,  and  liabilities  relate  to  such  service,  be  equitably
apportioned  and  divided  between  the  Governments  of  the  said  Colonies,  provided
always  that  no  such  apportionment  or  division  shall  be  carried  out  in  such  a  way  as  to
affect  the  rights  of  creditors  or  any  mortgage  or  security  upon  any  property  now
vested  in  the  High  Commissioner  and  Governor  as  the  common  property  of  both
Colonies,  and  in  particular  any  mortgage  charge  or  security  securing  the  payment
of  the  capital  and  interest  of  the  loan  authorized  by  the  Ordinance  of  the  Transvaal
intituled  the  ‘“Transvaal  Guaranteed  Loan  Ordinance,  1903.”  For  the  purposes
of  such  apportionment  and  division  the  aforementioned  loan  shall  be  deenied  and
taken  to  be  a  liability  of  the  Council.

(4.)  In  default  of  agreement  between  the  Government  of  the  Colony  and  of  the
Government  of  the  Transvaal  touching  any  such  apportionment  and  division,  or
any  matter  consequent  upon  the  termination  of  the  Council  or  of  any  service  administered
  by  it,  such  matter  shall,  if  both  Governments  agree  thereto,  be  referred
to  arbitration,  and  in  default  of  such  agreement,  then,  upon  the  petition  of  either
Government,  shall  be  referred  to  Us  in  Our  Privy  Council,  and  Our  said  Council
shall  have  power  to  hear  and  finally  determine  tlıe  same,  and  the  Government  of
the  Colony  shall  thereupon  take  all  such  action  as  may  be  necessary  to  carry  out
the  decision  of  Our  said  Council.

Native  Administration.

LII.—(1.)  The  Governor  shall  exercise  over  all  Chiefs  and  natives  in  the  Colony
all  power  and  authority  now  or  at  any  time  hereafter  vested  in  him  as  Paramount
Chief.  |

(2.)  The  Governor  in  Council  may  at  any  time  summon  an  assembly  of  native
Chiefs,  and  also,  if  it  shall  seem  expedient,  of  other  persons  having  special  knowledge
  and  experience  in  native  affairs,  to  discuss  with  the  Governor,  or  such  reprentative
  as  the  Governor  in  Council  may  appoint,  any  matters  concerning  the  administration
  of  native  affairs  or  the  interests  of  natives,  and  the  Governor  in  Council
shall  consider  any  reports  or  representations  submitted  to  him  byany  such  assembly,
and  shall  take  such  action  thereupon  as  may  seem  necessary  Or  proper.

(3.)  No  lands  which  have  been,  or  may  hereafter  be,  set  aside  for  the  occupation
of  natives  shall  be  alienated  or  in  any  way  diverted  from  the  purpose  for  which  they
are  set  apart  otherwise  than  in  accordance  with  a  Law  passed  by  the  Legislature.

Land  Settlement.
LIII.  (1.)—(a.)  There  shall  be  established  in  the  Colony  on  the  appointed  day
(as  hereinafter  defined)  a  Board,  to  be  called  the  Orange  River  Colony  Land  Settle-