51. The Attorney-General shall direct the said Commissioners to investigate every case of high treason or of a crime of a political character in which he has decided that there is a primâ facie case against the accused, but that it is not a case to be tried by the Special Court referred to in the last preceding chapter of this Act.

55. The Attorney-General may direct the said Commissioners to investigate any such case as aforesaid without first requiring a preliminary examination to be held.

56. The said Commissioners may make such rules for their own guidance and the conduct and management of proceedings before them, and the hours and times and places for their sittings, and for the necessary and convenient postponement of cases brought before them, and generally for the purpose of carrying out their duties under this Act, but not inconsistent with its provisions as they may from time to time think fit. At any meetings of the Commissioners for such purposes as aforesaid there shall be at least three Commissioners present, who shall elect one of their number to be President of such meeting; and if on any question arising at such meeting the Commissioners shall be equally divided, the President shall have a second or casting vote.

57. If any question of law shall arise in the course of the trial of any case before any of the said Commissioners, it shall be lawful for them to reserve such question for the consideration of the Special Court, established under the provisions of Chapter II of this Act. The question or questions reserved shall be stated, together with such facts as the Commissioners may consider necessary, and the statement shall be signed by the President of such Commissioners, and be transmitted to the Registrar of the said Special Court.

58. If any question is so reserved, the said Commissioners may either proceed to conclude the case in connection with which it arose or may postpone their verdict and sentence until the Special Court has decided the said question. When any question has been so reserved, the Special Court shall decide upon it, and may do any of the following things:

(a.) Confirm the judgment of the Commissioners;

(b.) Direct that such judgment shall be set aside-which order shall, for all purposes, have the same effect as if the defendant had been acquitted;

(c.) If judgment has not been delivered, remit the case to the Commissioners in order that they may deliver judgment;

(d) Give such judgment as the Commissioners ought to have given at the trial-in which case the judgment of the Court shall have the same effect, and be followed by the same consequences as if it had been delivered by the said Commissioners;

(e.) Call for such further information from the Commissioners before giving judgment as may seem to it desirable.

59. An appeal shall lie to the Special Court at the instance of any convicted person from any decision of a necessary number of the said Commissioners, whether depending on questions of law or of fact, which has been arrived at not unanimously but by a majority of such Commissioners: Provided that such appeals shall be noted and prosecuted within the time and subject to the conditions mentioned in section 18 of this Act.

60. Should the said Special Court have been dissolved before any questions reserved or appeals from the decisions of any of the Commissioners aforesaid have been fully determined, then all such matters shall be dealt with by the Supreme Court, which shall, for that purpose, have all the powers conferred upon the Special Court in terms of this Act as well as, and in addition to, its own powers.

61. In any case of high treason or a crime of a political character inquired into by the Commissioners, as in section 33 provided, in which the evidence shows to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that the person charged with such treason or crime has expressed or declared the same by words only, whether spoken or written, the Commissioners shall not find such person guilty unless such words induced or incited the enemy to invade the Colony, or any part of the Colony, or any person in this Colony to commit the crime of high treason or any crime of a political character.

CHAPTER IV.-Compensation for Loss or Damage sustained through Military Operations or the Acts of the Enemy or Rebels.

62. The Commissioners appointed by the Governor in terms of Government Notice No, 465, 1900, published in the "Gazette" of the 17th July, 1900, and any Commissioners who may be duly appointed by the Governor to inquire into the administration of martial law shall have the powers of a Judge of the Supreme Court on circuit to summon witnesses and to call for the production of books and documents and to examine witnesses on oath administered by their Chairman. All summonses for the attendance of witnesses or the production of documents may be in the form given in the second Schedule to this Act, and shall be signed by the Chairman or Secretary and served in the same manner and by the same officer as if it were a summons issued by the Resident Magistrate of the district in which the person summoned resides.

63. All persons summoned to attend and give evidence before the said Commissioners, or to produce books and other documents any of their sittings, shall be bound to obey the summons served

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on them, and shall be entitled to the like expenses as if they bad been summoned to attend a Circuit Court in the trial of a civil case, if the same shall be allowed by the Commissioners; but the Commissioners may for reasonable and sufficient ground disallow the whole or any part of such expenses in any case if they think fit. Orders for the payment of such witnesses shall be signed by the Chairman of the Commission, and shall be paid by the Resident Magistrate of the district in which the witnesses respectively reside.

64. Any person refusing or omitting without sufficient cause to attend and give evidence, or to produce books and documents at any sitting of the said Commissioners when summoned to do so, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 501., to be recovered in the Court of the Resident Magistrate of the district in which such sitting took place, and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months; the said penalty to be recovered and enforced in manner provided by section 41 of this Act, the provisions of which, so far as applicable, are to be considered as if herein inserted.

65. Any witness who shall after being duly sworn wilfully give false evidence in any inquiry before the said Commissioners concerning the subject-matter of such inquiry shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished accordingly. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to recall any witness who gave evidence before them before the passing of this Act, and require him to state on oath that the evidence given by him is true; and thereupon, should he do so, such evidence shall be deemed and taken to have been given by him on oath, after being duly sworn.

66. The said Commissioners may, acting within their power, recommend the amount of compensation, if any, to which, in their judgment, any claimant is entitled; and it shall be lawful for the Treasurer to pay the said amount, or such portion thereof as Parliament may determine, to the person entitled thereto out of moneys voted for that purpose by Parliament: Provided, however, that it shall be lawful for the Governor, in anticipation of the decision of Parliament, to advance to individuals, whose claims have been recommended as aforesaid, a proportion of the amount of the claims so recommended not exceeding one-half thereof.

67. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Indemnity and Special Tribunals Act, 1900."

A. B., Attorney-General of our Sovereign Lady the Queen within the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, who prosecutes for and on behalf of Her Majesty, presents and informs the Court:

That C. D. is guilty of the crime of

The particulars of the charge against him are that [here the facts are to be shortly and concisely stated], and that he thereby did commit the said crime of

In case of conviction the said Attorney-General prays for judgment against the said C. D. according to law.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

A. B., Attorney-General.

Summons to Witnesses.

To A. B. [name of person summoned, and his calling and residence, if known]. You are hereby summoned to appear before the Commissioners appointed by the Governor, and empowered by Act of 1900, to inquire [state briefly the subject of inquiry], at [place], upon the day of

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o'clock, and to give evidence respecting such inquiry.

[If the person summoned is to produce any documents, add]—

1900.

And you are required to bring with you [specify the books, plans, and documents required].

ACT of the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, to amend the Law relating to the Exportation of Arms, Ammunition, and Military and Naval Stores.

[No. 15.]

[Promulgated October 19, 1900.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly thereof, as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the Governor by Proclamation to prohibit the exportation of all or any of the following articles, namely: arms, ammunition, military, and naval stores, and any article which the Governor shall judge capable of being converted into, or made useful in increasing the quantity of arms, ammunition, or military or

naval stores, to any place therein named, whenever the Governor shall judge such prohibition to be expedient in order to prevent such arms, ammunition, military or naval stores being used against the subjects or forces of Her Majesty the Queen, or against forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or naval operations in co-operation with Her Majesty's forces.

2. If any goods so prohibited shall be exported or brought to any quay or other place to be shipped for exportation from this Colony, they shall be forfeited, and the exporter or his agent or the shipper of any such goods shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 1007., and in default of payment to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding three years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

3. This Act may be cited as "The Exportation of Arms Act, 1900."

AGREEMENT between the United States and the Sultan of Sulu, relative to the Sovereignty, Trade, &c., of the Sulu Archipelago. Signed at Jolo, August 20, 1899.*

AGREEMENT between Brigadier-General John C. Bates, representing the United States, of the one part, and His Highness the Sultan of Jolo, the Dato Rajah Muda, the Dato Attik, the Dato Calbi, and the Dato Joakanain, of the other part; it being understood that this Agreement will be in full force only when approved by the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands and confirmed by the President of the United States, and will be subject to future modifications by the mutual consent of the parties in interest.

ART. I. The sovereignty of the United States over the whole Archipelago of Jolo and its dependencies is declared and acknowledged.

*This Agreement was confirmed and approved, as recorded in the following despatch from the United States' Secretary of War :—

"Sir, "War Department, October 27, 1899. "The President instructs me to advise you that the Agreement signed the 20th August, 1899, between Brigadier-General John C. Bates, representing the United States, of the one part, the Sultan of Jolo, the Dato Rajah Muda, the Dato Attik, the Dato Calbi, and the Dato Joakanain, of the other part, is confirmed and approved, subject to the action of Congress provided for in that clause of the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, which provides 'The civil rights and the political status of the native inhabitants of the