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 1875] Sir Henry Barkly. 43 Colony, but as their inhabitants were barbarians who could not be admitted to the full privileges or perform the whole duties of burghers, they were made subject to special legislation by the governor with the advice of the executive council. The proclamation of the 17th of September 1879 provided that all the laws then in force in the Cape Colony should become the laws of Griqua- land East, except in so far as they should be modified by certain regulations published at the same time. The territory was not represented in the Cape parliament, nor were acts of parliament passed after September 1879 in force there unless expressly extended to it in the acts themselves or by proclamation of the governor in council. The district of Idutywa and Fingoland, comprising the three districts of Tsomo, iSfqamakwe, and Butterworth, were annexed to the Cape Colony at the same time and by exactly the same routine of obtaining the sanction of the imperial authorities. Under Captain Blyth's able management the Fingos living in the territory between the Kei and Bashee rivers given to them by Sir Philip Wodehouse, having no hereditary chiefs of high rank over them, were making great strides in prosperity, and order was well maintained among them. They had already laid a tax upon themselves of i£l,500 towards the establishment of the industrial institution Blythswood in connection with the mission of the free church of Scotland, which amount they subsequently increased to i'4,500. In 1874 they and the people of the adjoining district of Idutywa of their own free v/ill began to pay a hut tax of ten shillings a year to cover the cost of the administration by Europeans, though it was not yet legally established. In 1875 the ministry brought before the Cape parliament the question of the annexation of these territories, and the same proceedings were followed with regard to them as have been related concerning Griqualand East.