purposes, and will allow all notes issued under Law No. I, of 1900,
of the South African Republic, and all receipts given by officers
in the field of the late Republics, or under their orders, to be
presented to a Judicial Commission, which will be appointed by the
Government; and if such notes and receipts are found by this
Commission to have been duly issued in return for valuable
considerations, they will be received by the first named
Commissions as evidence of war losses suffered by the persons to
whom they were originally given. In addition to the above named
free grant of three million pounds, His Majesty's Government will
be prepared to make advances on loan for the same purposes, free of
interest for two years, and afterwards repayable over a period of
three years with three per cent. interest. No foreigner or rebel
will be entitled to the benefit of this clause."

Statement read by Lord Milner to the Boer delegates:--

"His Majesty's Government must place it on record that the
treatment of Cape and Natal Colonists who have been in rebellion,
and who now surrender, will, if they return to their Colonies, be
determined by the Colonial Governments, and in accordance with the
laws of the Colonies, and that any British subjects who have joined
the enemy will be liable to trial under the law of that part of the
British Empire to which they belong.

"His Majesty's Government are informed by the Cape Government that
the following are their views as to the terms which should be
granted to British subjects of Cape Colony who are now in the
field, or who have surrendered, or have been captured since the
12th of April, 1901: With regard to rank and file, that they should