dst to assist.

General BOTHA: I also have no objection, for I clearly understand that
no one is bound.

Lord KITCHENER: No, no one is bound.

General DE LA REY: We also wish to have the matter at an end, and to
know what we have before us.

Chief Commandant DE WET: I wish it to be plainly understood that I see
no chance to accept a body of which I have here only seen the head.
This appears to me to be an unsurmountable difficulty. Holding this
opinion, it would not be honest of me to remain silent; it would not
be honest to Your Excellencies.

Lord KITCHENER: I think it would be better that General de Wet first
saw the entire document before he gives his opinion.

It was then agreed that General Hertzog and General Smuts would act as
a sub-committee to make a complete draft with Lord Kitchener and Lord
Milner, advised by Sir Richard Solomon.

The meeting then adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1902.

The Conference was resumed.

Lord Milner submitted the document which had been drawn up during the
adjournment with the assistance of the sub-committee.

The names of the members of the two Republican Governments were now
filled in.

The document given hereunder was telegraphed to the British
Government, the last paragraph of Clause II, which deals with the
Government notes, the receipts and the sum of L3,000,000, having been
added during the Conference between all the representatives of both
parties on the terms drafted by the sub-committee. (See page 125.)

[Illustration: _Facsimile of a page of the Peace Proposals as
submitted by the British and amended by the Boer Representatives. The
alterations are in the handwriting of General Smuts and Mr. Advocate
N. J. de Wet._]

The document was read out in English and Dutch, and was as follows:--

General Lord KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM,
_Commanding in Chief_,

and

His Excellency Lord MILNER,
_High Commissioner_,
on behalf of the BRITISH GOVERNMENT,

and

Messrs. S. W. BURGER, F. W. REITZ, LOUIS BOTHA, J. H. DE LA REY,
L. J. MEYER, and J. C. KROGH,
acting as the GOVERNMENT of the SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC,

and

Messrs. M. T. STEYN, W. J. C. BREBNER, C. R. DE WET, J. B. M.
HERTZOG, and C. OLIVIER,
acting as the GOVERNMENT of the ORANGE FREE STATE,
on behalf of their respective BURGHERS,

Desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on the