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Act I blush to think that His Majesty's representative signed a
law like this, and signed it in such circumstances. Rev. Amos
Burnet (Chairman and General Superintendent of the Transvaal and
Swazieland District, Wesleyan Methodist Church). Up to now we
have dealt with the history of the Land Act from its
commencement, and all the speeches and official documents we
have mentioned hitherto say nothing about restricting Europeans
in their ownership of land. And no matter what other principles
one might read into the Act, it would be found that the
principles underlying it we