Excerpt from Select Constitutional Documents Illustrating South African History: 1795-1910 In the case of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, the Grondwet or constitution of each contains provisions for every branch of government. Here again it would lead to chaos if the documents were to be subdivided, therefore a purely chronological arrangement has been made. When any particular subject is to be consulted, the Index at the end of the volume will serve as a guide. The laws of these two countries were drawn up in Dutch. With the originals an English translation has been given in every case. I have attempted to make the rendering as literal as possible. Where a portion of an Act in Dutch has been summarised I have adhered as much as possible to the spelling and grammatical forms of the original. Titles of dignity occurring in the Dutch text have as a rule been omitted in translating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.