III.  Afrika.  968  152.  Transvaal.

of  six  months  from  the  date  of  such  notice  the  Council  shall  cease  to  exist,  or  such
service  shall  be  terminated  and  no  longer  administered  by  the  said  Council,  or  on
its  advice,  as  the  case  may  be;  and  the  said  Intercolonial  Council  South  Africa  Orders
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.)  All  the  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
Colony  intituled  the  “Transvaal  Guaranteed  Loan  Ordinance,  1903.”  For  the  purposes
  of  such  apportionment  and  division  the  aforementioned  loan  shall  deemed
and  taken  to  be  a  liability  of  the  Council.

(4.)  In  default  of  agreement  between  the  Government  of  the  Transvaal  and
the  Government  of  the  Orange  River  Colony  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  the  same,  and  the  Governments
  of  the  Transvaal  and  Orange  River  Colony  shall  thereupon  take  all  such  action
as  may  be  necessary  to  carry  out  the  decision  of  Our  said  Council.

Labour  Importation  Ordinances.

L.  (1.)—From  and  after  the  commencement  of  these  Our  Letters  Patent  no
licence  shall  be  issued  for  the  introduction  of  labourers  into  the  Colony  under  the
provisions  of  the  Ordinance  intituled  the  “Labour  Importation  Ordinance,  1904,”
and  no  contract  made  under  the  authority  thereof  shall  be  renewed  after  the  said  date.

(2).  Upon  the  termination  of  the  period  of  one  year  from  the  date  of  the  first
meeting  of  the  Legislature  the  Ordinance  of  the  Colony  intituled  the  “Labour  Importation
  Ordinance,  1904,”  and  all  Ordinances  amending  the  same,  and  all  Rules
and  Regulations  made  under  the  authority  of  the  said  Ordinances,  shall  be  repealed
and  cease  to  have  effect  within  the  Colony,  and  Regulations  shall  accordingly  be
determined.

(3).  The  Legislature  of  the  Colony  may  by  any  law  or  laws  accelerate  the  determination
  of  the  said  system  of  labour  or  regulate  the  same,  subject  to  the  conditions
of  these  Our  Letters  Patent,  and  provide  for  all  such  matters  as  it  may  be  necessary