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latitude both as regards procedure and
scope of investigation and recommendation.
It is not the desire of His Majesty's Gov-
ernment to place any limitations on your
discretion in this respect.
The manner in which the investigation
is to be conducted will be decided upon by
the Commissioners after they shall have met.
but the terms of the invitation to the Com-
mission make it clear that any conclusions
which the Commissioners may reach can only
be ad referendum, and that each country must
decide for itself whether they are appli-
cable to its own possessions and nationals.
I also enclose for your confidential
information, copies of confidential cor-
respondence and of papers bearing on the
subject which have been presented to Par-
liament from time to time, as indicated
in the list which accompanies this despatch.