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The Chairman then asked Commandant L. Botha to address the meeting.
Complying with this request, the Commandant said that he wished to be assured, before anything
further was done, that the fact that some of the representatives had been entrusted with limited
powers, whereas others had been given a free hand, was not going to prove to be an insurmountable
obstacle to united action on their part.
To this Judge Hertzog replied that it was a principle in law that a delegate is not to be regarded
as a mere ageht or mouthpiece of his constituents, but, on the contrary (when dealing with public
affairs), as a plenipotentiary—with the right, whatever his brief might be, of acting to the best of his
judgment.
States-Procureur Smuts concurred in this opinion, which appeared to satisfy both the
Commandant-General and also all the other representatives, for no further allusion was made to the
subject by anybody.
Commandant-General Botha now made his report.
In the districts of Vrijheid and Utrecht, he stated, the store of maize was so small that it could not
last for more than a short time ; but there was still a great number of slaughter-cattle. In the districts of
Wakkerstroom there was hardly sufficient grain for one month’s consumption. Two other districts had
still a large enough number of slaughter-cattle—enough, in fact, to last for two or three months. In
Ermelo, to the west and north-west of the blockhouses, and in Bethal, Standerton, and Middelburg,
there was grain for one month. But the Heidelburg and Pretoria commandos had now, for the first
time, no corn remaining for food. In the neighbourhood of Boksburg the only grain left was the old
maize of the previous year, whilst there were no cattle at all in the district. When he had visited
Boksburg he had found that the commandos had had no meat for three days. In the country between
Vereeniging and Ermelo there were only thirty-six goats, and no cattle whatsoever. In the
Wakkerstroom district, however, there were still a few slaughter-cattle. The horses were everywhere
worn out and exhausted. They had been so constantly kept on the move, owing to the enemy’s
increasing attacks, they could now only cover the shortest distances.
The Kaffir question was becoming from day to day more serious. At Vajheid, for instance, there
was a Kaffir commando
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