ABSTRACT

This chapter is an agreement made at Cape Town on the 23rd January, 1890, by and between Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of British Bechuanaland, of the one part, and the Honourable Cecil John Rhodes, M.L.A., representing the British South Africa Company, of the other part, for the construction of a Railway from the Southern to the Northern Border of British Bechuanaland based on certain terms and conditions. Another agreement Made at Cape Town on the 23rd January, 1890, by and between the Honourable Cecil John Rhodes, M.L.A., as representing the British South Africa Company, of the one part, and Sir John Gordon Sprigg, K.C.M.G., on behalf of the Government of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, of the other part, with reference to Railway extension from Kimberley through British Bechuanaland, based on certain terms and conditions.