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2. The Proclamation under Section 8 should not be issued until you receive my instructions as to the date from which the Ordinance should be brought into force.
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(No. 213.) SIR,
No. 179.
MAURITIUS.
I have. &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
[Answered by No. 194.]
Downing Street, 3rd November, 1913. WITH reference to the last paragraph of your despatch, No. 37, of the 28th January last, I have the honour to enquire whether the Bill to give effect to the provisions of the Hague Opium Convention has yet been passed into law.
SIR,
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Enclosure 3 in No. 180.
REPORT BY CROWN ATTORNEY.
Attorney-General's Chambers, Roseau, Dominica,
21st August, 1913. AN ORDINANCE to give effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the importation into and the storage and disposal of Opium, Morphine, Cocaine, and similar Drugs in this Presidency-No. 6 of 1913.
I HAVE the honour to report that this Ordinance is practically a copy of Antigua Ordinance No. 4 of 1913.
2. The fact that the preamble explains fully the purport of the Ordinance, makes it unnecessary for me to offer any further observations on it.
I have, &c.,
MARTIN J. CAMACHO,
Crown Attorney.
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No. 180.
I have, &c.,
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L. HARCOURT.
His Honour
Major John Alder Burdon, C.M.G.,
Administrator, Dominica.
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LEEWARD ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 25th November, 1913.)
[Copy of Enclosure 1 to Foreign Office, 28th May, 1914. LF] [Ordinance sanctioned, 15th December, 1913. No. 305 L.F.] (No. 368.) SIR,
Government House, 30th October, 1913.
WITH reference to your despatch “Miscellaneous" of the 26th July, 1912.† I have the honour to transmit to you the usual number of authenticated and unau- thenticated copies of Ordinance No. 6 of 1913, of the Legislature of Dominica. entitled "An Ordinance to give effect to the measures decided upon in the Inter- national Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the importation into and the storage and disposal of Opium, Morphine, Cocaine, and similar Drugs in this Presidency."
2. I enclose a copy of a minute by Mr. M. J. Camacho, the Acting Attorney- General, in which he advised that this Ordinance might properly be assented to. together with the usual report on the Ordinance by the Crown Attorney at Dominica.
I have, &c.,
H. HESKETH BELL,
Governor.
Enclosure 2 in No. 180.
MINUTE BY ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
HONOURABLE COLONIAL SECRETARY,
In my opinion, His Excellency may properly assent to this Bill.
15th September, 1913.
MARTIN J. CAMACHO,
Acting Attorney-General.
No. 181.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 907.)
SIR,
(Received 13th January, 1914.)
[Answered by No. 185.]
Governor-General's Office, Pretoria,
24th December, 1913.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith, with reference to your despatch, No. 454, of the 25th October,* a copy of minute, No. 1185, from Ministers, dated 19th December, 1913, on the subject of the Opium Convention of the 23rd January, 1912.
(Minute 1185.)
I have, &c.,
GLADSTONE,
Governor-General.
Enclosure in No. 181.
Prime Minister's Office, Pretoria,
19th December, 1913.
With reference to His Excellency the Governor-General's minute, No. 3/1428, dated 19th November, 1913, transmitting a despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the Opium Convention of 23rd January, 1912, Ministers have the honour to inform His Excellency that, in view of the representations of the Imperial Government, they now withdraw their objec- tion to adhesion to the Convention, which can accordingly be signed on behalf of the Union Government, and that steps will be taken for the introduction of the necessary legislation during the next session of Parliament.
J. C. SMUTS.
• No. 151.
† No. 77.
* Not reprinted.
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