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sufficient reason
• for applying
or abolishing similar laws in
tropical Colonies differing fromm
the mother Country in clemmate, 2000,
sour, moral & religious conditions.
further, I am not prepared to dary
that one way of meeting the evils to
which
sey
a
Item lion has been calledin
would be the reveure
of
the
refeated Ords, if their reveure must-
with general acquiescence; but here
again I must repeat that respect-
must be had to existing facts. It is
certain that to such rewount there
would be in this country a very strong opposition. It is in
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DRAFT.
Mr.
Mr.
MINUTE.
Mr. Antrobus.
Mr. Cox.
Mr. Lucas.
Mr. Graham.
Sir E. Wingfield.
Earl of Selborne.
Mr. Chamberlain,
This in the highest degree probable
that on
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the fist ofportunity the
Ords would be again repeated.
It is therefore my conviction
that the object aimed at wouldn
be not forthered but retarded
by simply for
retracing
the
momcul
a slip.
8 Accordingly, Jadhere to the
decision,
Jevew
in
my Dethatch
# A So
No 40 of the 18 th Fely 1898/
that I cannot sauction the reci
troduction of any system insoling
either the compulsory & periodical
examinations of women, or the
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