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- noun Plural form of
landdrost .
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Examples
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After all, our knowledge of outlaws and runaways in frontier regions comes from landdrosts 'reports and criminal trial proceedings, evidence that distance and a heterogeneous, heterodox population was not refuge enough from the state's justice.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Colonists need to be conceptualized as families — women, men, and children — in addition to the male functionaries who created the official archives. 86 Trading posts, battlefields, and landdrosts 'offices were undeniably crucibles of cross-cultural exchange.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Local authority was represented by landdrosts, or magistrates.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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In 1812 Governor Cradock responded to pleas from landdrosts and settlers alike.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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This naturalization confers the privilege of voting for local officials, Field-cornets, landdrosts, {11} and for members of the Second Raad.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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The greatest mischief was done by many of our landdrosts, who, after having surrendered, sent out communications to officers and burghers exhorting them to come in.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War P. [Illustrator] Van Breda 1892
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In most of the principal towns there are landdrosts [100] appointed by us; thus in this State the keeping of order and the administration of justice are managed by us, and not by your Excellency.
Three Years' War Christiaan Rudolf De Wet 1888
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They turned out the landdrosts, and set up miniature republics, each with a representative assembly.
Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880
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Commandant-General of the Boer forces, to all military officers, landdrosts, etc., giving specific instructions for the punishment of surrendered burghers who refused to join the commandos when called upon, and for the evasion of the neutrality oath.]
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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