The South-African crisis - pagina 48

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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

44

CRISIS.

Uitlanders electoral rights and eligibility for the

Now, what

Volksraad.

are

the conditioDS to which

Belgium

this right is subject, for example, in

law of August 6th

2 of the

obtain

full

naturalisation a

have attained his

fiftieth

continuous residence ners

and those

Article

widower or celibate must A^ear and given proof of a fathers

are

?

1881 provides that to

Married foreig-

oi fifteen years.

who

first

of families can be

enfranchised at the age of 25 and after an uninterrupted

Roumania

residence

of ten years

dence

ten 3^ears continuously after the application

of

made

^).

requires a resi-

The Boers, on the contrary, were satisfied with a residence of 3 years in the Free State ^), and in the is

^).

South African Republic 2

want

of civilization

full

years

Mark, then, their

^).

Later, without doubt, in the face of

!

a restless cosmopolitan invasion the Transvaal demanded a residence for

14 years, but, even this latter figure

below that of the Belgian Law; and at the Bloem-

is

fontein

Kruger did not hesitate to

Mr.

conference

reduce these fourteen years to seven

5),

a proposition

which was accepted by the Volksraad and even made retrospective, Let us now see what England herself did in this matter. It is quite true that 12*^1

paragraph 7 of the

1870 provided for the possibility

bill of

May

of

obtaining civic

rights after a residence of 5 years, but the

same paragraph

2)

Law Law

2)

Constitution section

1

^)

Wet van

Art.

'")

Green book, n.

1)

of June 26th, art.

8, hb.

of -1866, 1884, 51

1890, n. 4,

5,

.

Art 1

.

1

.

d.

1899, p. 30.

D.

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