You have not carried out the conditions!" Oh! Mr.Krueger showed again at Bloemfontein how very clever he is, and how worthy of Bismarck's admiration--but, Bismarck only entered upon a policy which he could carry through.
According to Krueger's proposal, every new-comer must within a fortnight of arrival have himself inscribed as a candidate for naturalisation and the Franchise; the former would be granted after two years; the latter after five more years; seven years in all.

But should the first formality have been neglected within the stated time, the Uitlander was to forfeit for good and all the right of obtaining either the one or the other! The first condition having been fulfilled, the inscribed Uitlander was to prove "his obedience to the laws"; but President Krueger did not signify how he was to give this negative proof.
He had, moreover, to prove that he had "committed no act contrary to the Government, or its independence." But to vote against any candidate of Krueger's is, in the Transvaal, an act contrary to the Government.

What Uitlander then could ever have obtained his naturalisation?
"Two years of continuous registration,"-- but are the registers carefully kept in the Transvaal?
These formalities accomplished, and naturalisation obtained, there followed five years of registration, and the obligation of permanent residence.

A stay at the Cape, a voyage to Europe, would have sufficed to forfeit the whole benefit of the formalities observed, including inscription during the first fourteen days after arrival.
Finally, the retrospective clause demonstrates the cunning nature of the methods employed by Mr.Krueger.
First it deals with a nine years' residence, _plus_ two years for naturalisation, _plus_ six months' declaration, in all eleven years-and-a-half, at the least.
The wording of the clause is as follows:-- "The Residents in the South African Republic before 1890, who shall become naturalised within six months of the promulgation of the proposed law, after giving six months' notice of their intention to apply for naturalisation, shall obtain the full franchise two years after naturalisation, instead of five years.

Those who have not been naturalised within six months will have to fulfil the conditions applying to new comers." Look at the trickery of this regulation.