Standing Orders 1965: The Senate, Standing Orders Relating to Public Business (Senator Achilles Bozas’s Copy, with Compliments Slip) by Senate of the Republic of South Africa

The Standing Orders 1965 of the Senate of the Republic of South Africa: Standing Orders Relating to Public Business, issued by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa and printed by Cape & Transvaal Printers, Cape Town.

Bound in red grained boards, the upper board lettered in gilt within a ruled panel, with rounded corners and a printed thumb index cut into the fore-edge for quick reference in the chamber.

The Standing Orders 1965 set out the rules of the Senate, from the proceedings at the meeting of a new Senate and the election of the President to sittings, bills, committees, debate, order, divisions and communications with the House of Assembly.

Marginal notes and footnotes in the Standing Orders 1965 record earlier amendments back to 1920.

This copy has been kept current with the Senate’s own printed amendment and substitution slips, pasted over the relevant Standing Orders, recording changes adopted on 19 May 1967 and 4 February 1969. The years 1966 to 1969 are noted in ink on the front pastedown.

The copy was issued to Senator Achilles Bozas of Empangeni, Zululand historian and collector, and carries his bookplate.

Loosely inserted is a printed compliments slip “With the Compliments of the Secretary to Parliament”, Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, addressed in ink to “Senator A. Bozas”. The printer’s code on the slip is dated 28 August 1974.

Internal parliamentary handbooks such as the Standing Orders 1965 were issued to members and officials and seldom reach the market.

This is a good association copy for collectors of South African parliamentary and political history, and a useful reference for researchers on the pre-1980 Senate.

Condition – Good

This copy of the Standing Orders 1965 is in red grained boards, clean and square, the gilt bright. Foxing and light damp staining to the endpapers, title leaf and preliminaries, with scattered foxing through the text.

Binding firm; the Standing Orders 1965 thumb-index tabs are intact. Amendment slips pasted in as issued. Bookplate to the front free endpaper and ink dates to the front pastedown. Compliments slip loosely inserted. Complete.