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shall come into force shall be the subject of upree-
mont between the Signatory Powers.
This will moat the
point taken in your talerram of the 12th instant, and
the Board of Trace letter enclosed in your Despatch
No. 18 of the 10th instant (1713) that restrictions
should not be enforced until each State has had an
opportunity of learning the extent to which other
Powera are prepared to move in the same direction.
We
may say here that we do not think it feasible in this
connection to require each state to commicate to
other States the terms of such legislation &c.
Such
intercommunication of laws and statistics in contum-
plated by one of the Convention articles, but obvious-
ly this can have no affect until the "onvention as a
whole comes into force.
Obviously too it is easy to
obtain the detalls of proposed foreign legislation
through the ordinary diplomatic charmels.
We would also observe that ne indicated in our
telegram of the 11th instant 11 will be difficult to
make any valid distinction for the purposes of para-
graph 0 between Parliamentary Legislation and Adminis-
trative action which takes its pluce in certain
countries