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2. These clauses have been drafted in substitution for those in the Billa prepared in 1900, with a view to meeting the objections raised by the Governments of certain Responsible Government Colonies to the corre- sponding clauses in the old Bills; and I should be glad if you would invite your Ministers to give them consideration and to furnish me with an expression of their views at an early date.
3. It is not at present proposed in any legislation which may be intro- duced on the subject of Copyright to depart in other respects from the general lines of the Bills of 1900, the other clauses of which were in the main approved by the Colonies.
I have, &c.,
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