cHAP. 111] TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACES 1073 
services than that which the amount payable from the 
treasury of the Union towards the cost of administration of 
the territory bears to the total customs revenue of the Union 
on the average of the three immediately preceding years.! 
Further provisions are made for the security of native 
rights in the territories? It shall not be lawful to alienate 
any land in Basutoland or any land forming part of the 
native reserves of the Bechuanaland Protectorate and 
Swaziland from the native tribes inhabiting the territories. 
The sale of liquor to natives is to be prohibited in the 
berritories, the rules respecting the liquor trade are to be 
maintained, and the Basuto custom of holding pitsos or other 
recognized forms of native customs shall be maintained.? No 
differential duties or imposts on the produce of the territories 
shall be levied, and the laws of the Union relating to customs 
and excise shall be made to apply to the territories. 
There shall be free intercourse for the black and white 
inhabitants of the territories with the rest of South Africa, 
subject to the laws, including the Pass Laws of the Union, 
a qualification of considerable importance.? 
In place of any appeal which now lies to the King in Council 
from any Court of the territories, the appeals are to be made 
bo the appellate division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. 
The rights of civil servants employed in the territories as 
existing on the date of transfer are to remain in force, while 
the members of the Commission shall be entitled to such 
pensions as the Governor-General in Council shall provide, 
and the salaries and pensions of the members and of other 
* Cf. The Government of South Africa, ii. 262 seq., for the financial position 
in 1908. 
* The provisions follow the analogy of the Transvaal and Orange River 
Colony Letters Patent of December 6, 1906, and June 5, 1907, which 
provide for the Governors exercising the powers of Supreme Chiefs, for the 
non-alienation of land save by law (a much less stringent rule than now laid 
down), and for councils of chiefs. Cf. also s. 147 of the Act. 
' Cf. The Government of South Africa, i. 138, and see now High Com- 
missioner’s proclamation, No. 7 of 1910, placing the whole matter on 
2 secure basis. Proclamation No. 1 deals with liquor. 
¢ Cf. ibid., pp. 115, 116, 135. 
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