BLOEMFONTEIN, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1900.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is deemed expedient and necessary for the welfare of the Orange Free State that Postal and Telegraph Services shall be resumed in the aforesaid Republic, as far as circumstances permit, Now therefore
I, Frederick Sleigh Baron Roberts of Khandahar, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., Field Marshal and Commanding-in-Chief of the British Forces in South Africa, do hereby nominate and appoint David George Anosi Falck Administrator of the Civil Posts and Telegraphs in such portions of the Orange Free State as have been, or may hereafter be occupied by British troops. And I do hereby order that the Postal and Telegraph services shall be resumed in the portions of the aforesaid Republic already referred to, from the nineteenth day of March, 1900, under the existing Laws and Conventions of the Orange Free State, subject to such alterations as may from time to time be notified.
Given under my hand at Bloemfontein this Seventeenth Day of March, 1900.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Roberts,
Field-Marshal,
Commanding-in-Chief British Forces, South Africa.
ARMY ORDERS—SOUTH AFRICA.