t-tax will be collected of 10s. per hut by the
chiefs, and will be paid to the Resident and sub-resident. The
sum thus collected will be used in paying the Resident L2000 a
year, all included: the sub-residents L1200 a year, all included;
in providing for the education of people (now costing L3320 a
year); in making roads, etc.

"Art. 7. The chiefs collecting hut-tax will be paid 10 per cent.
of the sums they collect.

"Art. 8. The frontier line will be placed under headmen, who will
be responsible that no thieving be permitted, that spoors are
followed up. For this these headmen will be paid at the rate of
L20 to L60 per annum, according to the length of frontier they
are responsible for.

"Art. 9. All passes must be signed by Residents or sub-residents
for the Orange Free State, or for the Cape Colony.

"_Query_--Would it be advisable to add chiefs and missionaries
after sub-residents?

"Art. 10. Colonial warrants will be valid in Basutoland, the
chiefs being responsible that prisoners are given up to Resident
or sub-residents.

"Art. 11. All communications between Basutoland and the Orange
Free State to be by and through the Resident.

"Art. 12. This Convention to be in quadruplicate, two copies
being in possession of the Colonial Government, and two copies in
possession of the Basuto chiefs.

"Art. 13. On signature of this Convention, and on the fulfilment
of Art. 1, amnesty clause, the Colonial Government agrees to
withdraw the military forces and the present magisterial
administration."

To this important communication no answer was ever vouchsafed, but on
7th August, long after it was in the hands of Ministers, Mr Thomas
Scanlan, the Premier, wrote a long reply to the earlier memorandum of
26th May. The writer began by quoting Lord Kimberley's remarks on that
memorandum, which were as follows:--

"I have received the memorandum on the Basuto question by
Major-General Gordon. I do not think it necessary to enter upon a
discussion of the policy suggested in this memorandum, but it
will doubtless be borne in mind by your Ministers that, as I
informed you by my telegram of the 6th of May last, H.M.'s
Government cannot hold out any expectation that steps will be
taken by them to relieve the colony of its responsibilities in
Bas