Webb; 2.

To protest against the law of public meetings; 3.

To obtain signatures to a petition praying for the protection of Queen Victoria.
The State Attorney and Secretary of State replied that "although the objects of this meeting were naturally distasteful to the Transvaal Government, they did not forbid the meeting.

Only, all persons who should commit acts of violence, or who should make use of seditious language, would be held personally responsible." Ladies were invited to attend the meeting, which was held at four o'clock in the afternoon.

The members of the League were unarmed.
When they arrived, they found the hall already in possession of three or four hundred burghers, who had been recruited by Papenfus, Acting Road Inspector, and were acting under the orders of Mr.Broeksma, Third Public Prosecutor, and Mr.de Villiers, Second Public Prosecutor.