Further, it was decided that the candidate who should be elected should be sworn in as Vice-States President, and retain that title until the time arrived when the condition of the country should make it possible to hold an election in conformity with the law.
After the voting had taken place, it was found that the former President, Marthinus Theunis Steyn, had been unanimously re-elected.
At the burghers' meeting the voting resulted in the same way, except at a meeting at which Mr.Cecil Rhodes was proposed as a candidate.

This proposal was not seconded! President Steyn was declared elected.

And he was then sworn in.
The executive Raad now consisted of the President, as chairman, with T.
Brain, Secretary of State, W.J.C.Brebner, Secretary of State, A.P.
Cronje, Jan Meijer and myself as members.

Mr.Rocco De Villiers was Secretary of the War Council, and Mr.Gordon Fraser, Private Secretary to the States President.
No States-Procureur had been appointed since Mr.Jacob De Villiers had been taken prisoner at Bothaville; but the Council appointed Mr.Hendrik Potgieter, Landdrost of Kroonstad, as Public Prosecutor.
Various causes had made it impossible for a legally constituted Volksraad to sit.

Some members had, as we called it, "hands-upped"; others had thought that they had done quite enough when they had voted for the war.