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J.C. Smuts
Partially printed letter in Dutch on official ZAR stationary, dated 18 October 1898, signed by J.C Smuts as State Attorney of the ZAR. In full (translated): 'The State Attorney of the S.A. Republic, hereby authorises, after consultation with the Head of the Prison Service, that the prisoner Duif accused of Burglary currently in prison in Johannesburg be transferred to the prison in Krugersdorp in order to serve the remainder of his term. Given under my hand on this eighteenth day of the month October 1898, at the office of the State Attorney in Pretoria.' In overall fine condition.
J.C. Smuts was disillusioned by C.J. Rhodes and British imperial policy, he subsequently left the Cape for the Transvaal, on 20 January 1897. As an uitlander, he was barred from voting until he had fulfilled the fourteen-year residency requirement. Smuts established his legal practice in Johannesburg where he quickly came to the attention of President Kruger. Smuts supported Kruger when he dismissed Chief Justice Kotze, in a mining rights case worth £372,400 against the Republic. On 8 June 1898. Smuts was granted second-class citizenship of the Transvaal, enabling Kruger to appoint him as State Attorney on the same day. Smuts signed this document in his capacity as State Attorney, authorising the transfer of a prisoner to the Krugersdorp prison in 1898.
Cloth-matted with a descriptive plaque and image of the three generals. Framed by The Archive Gallery.
