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DIRK KOK'8 EVIDENCE. 131.'E:dractB from- " Minutes of tke proceeding, of tke OommisBiondeputed 611 tke Government of tke Orange FrMState, in DecemlJer, 1863, to inquIre into tke right8 oftM OamplJell groundB : "-"The commjaaion met this morning, the 11th inat. (a~ Oampbell)and immediately requested the Provisional Captain, Dirk Kok"(suCC8lllOr to Jan Bartlett), who had been appointed by OaptainAdam. Kok to come over, who arrived in the evening, and made thefollowing declaration :-II 'I am a son of Adam Kok, generally called Kort Adam, andarrived in 1815 from the Kamiesbergen (Oape Oolony) titGrigu Toum, au t/&w, I()uM til rul8r .4._ Ko"; and tit Oamp6,1leM fIOtD tkcltllMl CtWft81i", Kd fila. tAen t/&w, til rul8r ! ' "(How does this statement, the repetition, indeed, ofa well-known historical fact, coincide with the mendaciousassertion of Messrs. Wa.terboer & Co., that thelate Andriea WaterlJoer a.ppointed the la.te CorneliusKok to Campbell as hiB subordinate? It is notoriousthat Cornelius Kok, as the witness testified, was alreadyChief of Campbell long before old Andries Waterboerwas raised from obscurity, and made first a constable,then the Chief of Griqua Town, by old Dam Kok.)The Provisional Captain, Dirk Kok, "added thefollowing evidence :"- .u 'Oornelius Kok, who was Oaptain of Oampbell, had his owncouncillors, and held his own mad, fIIlwlly ifllllpMtlmt 01 tM (}"".,."..,. 01 fJripI To."., BOIt6/usp, and PMlippolu • • • Oonuli'" Ko"fUM' W to ,ifJ, any tltle()Unt to Captain '1YtJtwl"IW 01 AU doing ••" 'I was also present when Oaptain Kok, of Philippolis, and theDOW reigning Oaptain, Nicolas Waterboer, of Griqua Town, wantedto make an exchange of grounds at Vetberg. The exchange was to• Y'teHp. 4, Annexurea, .. Annemre No.6," Blue Book, O.F.8.,"MiJiutesof Meeting at Nooitgedaoht,1870."Digitized "by Goog Ie