CHAPTER XXXVI.
Peace Negotiations General De la Rey, who, as a Member of the Transvaal Government, had to be present at the coming deliberations, accompanied the President to Klerksdorp, where they arrived on the 9th of April, and found the Transvaal Government already there awaiting them.
The two Governments held their first meeting in the afternoon of the same day.

The South African Republic was represented by:--Vice-States-President S.W.

Burger; Commandant-General Louis Botha; Secretary of State F.W.

Reitz; General De la Rey; Ex-General L.J.
Meijer; and Mr.J.B.

Krogh.