decisions of these courts appeals may be made to the appellate division
of the Supreme Court. The judges of the divisional courts go on circuit
twice a year. In addition, since 1888 a special court has been held at
Kimberley for trying cases relating to illicit diamond buying
("I.D.B."). This court consists of two judges of the supreme court and
one other member, hitherto the civil commissioner or the resident
magistrate of Kimberley. The Transkeian territories, which fall under
the jurisdiction of the eastern district court, are subject to a Native
Territories Penal Code, which came into force in 1887. Besides the usual
magistrates in these territories, there is a chief magistrate, resident
at Cape Town, with two assistants in the territories.

_Religion_.--Up to the year 1876 government provided an annual grant for
ecclesiastical purposes which was divided among the various churches,
Congregationalists alone declining to receive state aid. From that date,
in accordance with the provisions of the Voluntary Act of 1875, grants
were only continued to the then holders of office. The Dutch Reformed
Church, as might be anticipated from the early history of the country,
is by far the most numerous community. Next in number of adherents among
the white community come the Anglicans--Cape Colony forming part of the
Province of South Africa. In 1847 a bishop of Cape Town was appointed to
preside over this church, whose diocese extended not only over Cape
Colony and Natal, but also over the island of St Helena. Later, however,
separate bishops were appointed for the eastern province (with the seat
at Graham's Town) and for Natal. Subsequently another bishopric, St
John's, Kaffraria, was created and the Cape Town diocesan raised to the
rank of archbishop. Of other Protestant bodies the Methodists outnumber
the Anglicans, eight-ninths of their members being coloured people. The
Roman Catholics have bishops in Cape Town and Graham's Town, but are
comparatively few. There are, besides, several foreign missions in the
colony, the most important being the Moravian, London and Rhenish
missionary societies. The Moravians have been established since 1732.

The following figures are extracted from the census returns of
1904:--Protestants, 1,305,453; Roman Catholics, 38,118; Jews, 19,537;
Mahommedans, 22,623; other sects, 4297; "no religion," 1,016,255. In
this last category are placed the pagan natives. The figures for the
chief Protestan