ander Council are convinced that no
settlement will be of any value unless its permanency is guaranteed
by an understanding between the Imperial Government and the
Government of the South African Republic.

"Further, knowing by past experience that every effort will be made
by means of the existing Government machinery to obstruct and
pervert even the smallest measure of reform, and bearing in mind the
immense discretionary power accorded by the laws to all Government
officials, the Uitlander Council are strongly of opinion that the
understanding between the two Governments should provide for such
immediate changes in the present laws of the country as would make
it possible to carry out Sir A. Milner's scheme, not only in the
letter, but also in the spirit.

"The outcome of the understanding between the two Governments should
be the inclusion among the permanent and fundamental laws of the
South African Republic of a Reform Act embracing, in addition to the
clauses providing for naturalisation and redistribution on the lines
already indicated, the following among other provisions:

"1. No burgher or alien shall be granted privileges or immunities
which on the same terms shall not be granted to all burghers.

"2. No person shall, on account of creed or religious belief, be
under any disability whatever.

"3. The majority of the inhabitants being English-speaking, English
shall be recognised equally with Dutch as an official language of
the State.

"4. The independence of the High Court shall be established and duly
safeguarded.

"5. Legislation by simple resolution (_besluit_) of the Volksraad
shall be abolished.

"6. The free right of public meeting and of forming electoral
committees shall be recognised and established.

"7. The freedom of speech and of the press shall be assured.

"8. All persons shall be secured in their houses, persons, papers,
and effects against violation or illegal seizure.

"9. The existence of forts and the adoption of other measures
intended for the intimidation of the white inhabitants of the
country, being a menace to the exercise of the undoubted rights of a
free people, shall be declared unconstitutional.

"10. Existing monopolies shall be cancelled or expropriated on
equitable conditions.

"11. Raad members must be fully enfranchised burghers and over
twenty-one years of age. Any candidate for the Presidency must be a
fully enfranchised burgher over thirty years of age,