Landrost
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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With regard to military matters, the Field-Cornet is also obliged to report to the Commandant placed over him, besides the Landrost.
From Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain A Documentary Perspective Of The Causes Of The War In South Africa by Frederick C. (Frederick Charles) Hicks
Commandant Opperman, who was directly responsible for our safe custody, was in times of peace a Landrost or Justice.
From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Winston Churchill
Article 147.—All small traders who enter this territory shall not trade until they are provided with a license, which has been obtained at one of the Landrost's offices, and signed by the Landrost.
From Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britain A Documentary Perspective Of The Causes Of The War In South Africa by Frederick C. (Frederick Charles) Hicks
The totals were ninety-one prisoners of the Bethel and Standerton commandos, including the Landrost of Bethel, twenty wagons, thirty Cape carts, 2,000 head of cattle, and 5,000 sheep, many rifles, ammunition, etc.
From Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eug?ne du Moulin
Previously to this, every district had been governed by a magistrate, or Landrost.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
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