=Source.=--_Parliamentary Papers_, "Transvaal," C 2,838 of 1881, p.
11.
In the name of the people of the South African Republic. With
prayerful look to God we, S. J. P. Kruger, Vice-President, M. W.
Pretorious, and P. J. Joubert, appointed by the Volksraad in its
session of the 13th December, 1880, as the Triumvirate to carry on
temporarily the supreme administration of the Republic, make known:
* * * * *
We thus give notice to everyone that on the 13th day of December of
the year 1880 the Government has been re-established; the Volksraad
has resumed its sitting....
And it is further generally made known that from this day the whole
country is placed in a state of siege and under the stipulations of
the War Ordinance....