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Appendix No. 2 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.

Memorandum of the proceedings of

certain parties in Mauritius, who have been endeavouring to form an Association for remedying the grievances under which the Colony is said to be suffering.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Sir Wm. Gomm, No. 925;

October 21, 1848.

On the 27th September, 1848, Mr. Arbuthnot, as President of the Mauritius Merchants and Planters' Association, requested the Governor of Mauritius to permit the Association to meet some other planters at an hotel in Port Louis for the purpose of "conferring on various matters interest- ing to them."

The Governor granted permission upon the understanding that due notice of such and succeeding meetings should be given to the police. Accordingly two Public Meetings were held on the 28th September and 5th October, at which the following Resolutions were passed :-

Resolution passed on the 28th September. "That a Committee be formed to report, with the least possible delay, upon the best means to be a fair and adopted for the purpose of securing impartial representation of the interests of all classes in the colony, with a view to mid the home and the local Governments in the adoption of such measures as the possent depressed state of all interests in colony imperatively calls for."

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