CHAPTER VI.
POLICE, JUSTICE, AND LAW ACCORDING TO BOER METHODS.[10] 1 .-- _Legal and Judicial System of the Transvaal._ In the Transvaal, law is an instrument made use of either to favor or oppress the individual, according to circumstances.

If necessary it is made retrospective.

To provide for the case of judges refusing to apply such laws, Law I.of 1897 has been passed, which compels them to swear obedience to the President and gives him the right to dismiss summarily such as prove insubordinate or lukewarm.

The President of the High Court, Mr.Kotze, fell under the action of this law, in February, 1898.
Before that law, the President annulled any judgments that displeased him and caused the fines or damages inflicted upon the delinquents to be paid out of the public Treasury.
Such is judicial and legal rule in the Transvaal; and there are European lawyers of the opinion that the Uitlanders must be the most contemptible and lowest set of adventurers for not being satisfied with it! Dr.
Kuyper declares that "the factitious discontent existed only among the English"; and adds with contempt, "Let us look into the Edgar, Lombaard, and Amphitheatre cases--mere police affairs." Well; let us consider Mr.Krueger's interpretation of the duties of the police.
[Footnote 10: _Le Siecle,_ March 30th, 1900.] 2 .-- _The Police._ The chief of the departments of justice and police is called the State Attorney.
In 1895, when Mr.Esselen was promoted to the post, he stipulated that he should have full liberty of action.

As chief detective officer he appointed an officer belonging to the Cape Administration, Mr.Andrew Trimble, who entered upon his duties with vigour and determination.