"1. No burgher or alien shall be granted privileges or immunities which on the same terms shall not be granted to all burghers.
"2. No person shall, on account of creed or religious belief, be under any disability whatever.
"3. The majority of the inhabitants being English-speaking, English shall be recognised equally with Dutch as an official language of the State.
"4. The independence of the High Court shall be established and duly safeguarded.
"5. Legislation by simple resolution (besluit) of the Volksraad shall be abolished.
"6. The free right of public meeting and of forming electoral committees shall be recognised and established.
"7. The freedom of speech and of the press shall be assured.
"8. All persons shall be secured in their houses, persons, papers, and effects against violation or illegal seizure.
"9. The existence of forts and the adoption of other measures intended for the intimidation of the white inhabitants of the country, being a menace to the exercise of the undoubted rights of a free people, shall be declared unconstitutional.
"10. Existing monopolies shall be cancelled or expropriated on equitable conditions.