(a) Maintenance of order:  the execution of the laws, the carrying out of sentences after receiving orders, and the consideration of measures of general and local interest; also the supervision over the natives, and the repression of vagrancy and vagabondage in the field-cornetcies.

(b) Commandos on occasion of rebellion among the natives:  bringing Kaffir chiefs to their duty.

(c) Commandos for the suppression of disorders among the white population:  dispatching sufficient force to the district where disorder has broken out; and by

(d) Defence of the country and carrying on war:  carrying out martial law and taking the field at the head of the army.

ARTICLE 104.—­All subordinates receive orders from the officers and officials placed above them.

ARTICLE 105.—­All the officers except the Commandant-General shall be, before taking up their office, sworn by the President in accordance with Article 77.  The Commandant-General shall be sworn by the Volksraad, according to Articles 90 and 106.

ARTICLE 106.—­This oath shall be of the following contents: 

“I promise and swear solemnly allegiance to the people of this Republic; that I shall act in my office according to the law, right, and justice, according to the best of my knowledge and conscience, without respect of person; that I have made or promised to no one gift or favour to reach this office; that I shall receive from no one any gift or favour if I can suspect that this should be done or shown to persuade me in the duties of my office in favour of the giver or favourer; that I shall obey the commands of those placed over me according to the law, and consider only the prosperity, welfare, and independence of the country and people of this Republic.”

ARTICLE 107.—­The Field-Cornets shall, lawful prevention being excepted, give a report every three months to the Landrost of events among their subordinates in the wards in the past months, and as often besides that time as a report is required of them.  With regard to military matters, the Field-Cornet is also obliged to report to the Commandant placed over him, besides the Landrost.  If he does not comply therewith, or in case of negligence, he shall be fined in Rds. 10.

ARTICLE 108.—­The Commandants send the three-monthly reports of the Field-Cornets, with the addition of their own report, besides their remarks, to the Commandant-General.  The latter acts in the same way with the reports of the Commandants in sending his report to the President, and without delay these reports must be sent to the President.

ARTICLE 109.—­The Field-Cornets shall keep a list of those in their wards who are liable to duty, and must draw up that list in such a way that it appears therefrom who must be summoned for the maintenance of order, so that the duties of the men may be proportionately divided amongst them.