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 46 History of the Cape Colony. [1876 October 1875 the terms of the cession, as drawn up in writing by the reverend Peter Hargreaves on behalf of the Tembus, were discussed with Commandant Bowker and Mr. Wright at a meeting held at Clarkebury, at which all the chiefs of note in Tembuland Proper, except Dalasile, head of the Kwati clan, were present. The Tembus proposed that Gangelizwe and fourteen heads of clans, who were named, should be recognised by the colonial government as chiefs, and that salaries, the amoimts of which were mentioned, should be paid to them; that hut tax shoald not be payable until 1878; that the boundaries of the country should remain as previously fixed ; that the chiefs should retain judicial authority over their people, except in cases of certain specified crimes, and subject to appeal to magistrates; that the government of the mission stations should not be interfered with; that the Fingo chief Menziwe should be removed to a locality which was named; and that the sale of spirituous liquors to black people should be prohibited. These proposals were forwarded to the governor, and were agreed to, with the sole exception that Gangelizwe could not be recognised as a chief, though a salary of £200 would be paid to him yearly. On the 10th of December another meeting of the chiefs and people took place at Emjanyana, when Com- mandant Bowker announced officially that the country and people had been taken over on the above terms, and that Mr. S. A. Probart would shortly be sent as a special commissioner to conclude the arrangements. At this meeting proposals were made on behalf of Dalasile to come under the Cape government, and were agreed to by Commandant Bowker. The conditions were that his people should not be mixed with others, but should have a separate magis- trate ; that he should receive a salary of £100 a year ; and a few others similar to those under which Gange- lizwe's immediate adherents were taken over.