South African Police, Van Reenen records
Contains correspondence, circulars, telegrams, orders, duty and occurrence books, patrol reports, case dockets, charge sheets, lost and found lists, returns and statements.
Subjects are poll and dog tax, stock disease and theft, crime, registration of voters, agricultural census and the administration of the police at Van Reenen.
South African Police
Assault on police, common assault, common theft, stock theft, cultivating dagga, attempted rape, general tax - natives, habit-forming drugs.
Index to Information's includes persons wanted etc., lost and stolen stock, lost and stolen property.
Lost and Found Stock, Harrismith District.
Prisoners' property receipt books, recording their money and other effects and their total value.
Private individuals complaints
Correspondence re stock theft, trespassers, desertion, refusal to work, suicide.
Completion of major and minor works, elections, members of Force tried by magistrates, class grading of constables, issuing of railway holiday certificates, requisitions, recruiting, appointing of special escort constables, economy, fingerprints of juveniles, marriage, damage to premises occupied by S.A.P., use of designation 'Cape Coloured' instead of 'Cape Boy'.
Stock thefts, subsistence allowance, rules and opinions on laws of the ORC, native passes, index to general orders, holding of violent death inquiries, issuing of railway warrants, examination for promotion to Corporal. - Dutch, veterinary, saddlery, requisitions.