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No. 48.
MAURITIUS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 12.30 p.m., 13th October, 1904.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 50.]
Referring to your despatch, No. 119, 17th May,* paragraph 2, Executive Council ask me to ascertain reason for difference in percentage in case of railways built out of current revenue. -BoYLE.
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SIR,
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No. 52.
CEYLON.
COLONIAL OFFICE to ADMIRALTY AND WAR OFFICE.
[Answered by Nos. 54 and 56.]
Downing Street, 4 January, 1905. [To Admiralty only: WITH reference to your letter of the 16th of December*] I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, to be laid before the [Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty] [Army Council] a copy of a telegramt from the Governor of Ceylon respecting telegraphic instructions from this country which have been received by the Chief Ordnance Officer, Ceylon, to the effect that the fortifications at Trincomalee are to be dismantled and the guns sent to England.
I am to enquire whether it is proposed to dismantle the fortifications as well as to reduce the establishments at Trincomalee.
A similar letter has been addressed to [the War Office] [the Admiralty].
I am, &c.,
No. 49.
CEYLON.
C. P. LUCAS.
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TELEC.O. 882
SIR.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
Downing Street, 15 October, 1904. WITH reference to your letter of the 21st of April last. I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, for the information of the Army Council, the enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Ceylon forwarding a revised estimate of the military contribution for that Colony in respect of the year 1904 in substitution for that contained in the letter from this Department of the 30th of November. 1903. §
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No. 50. MAURITIUS.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (Sent 1.20 p.m., October 18, 1904.) TELEGRAM.
Your telegram of 13 October. Rate of 3 per cent., plus 1 per cent. for sinking fund, has been agreed upon in case of Eastern Colonies generally, as roughly Matter cannot be reconsidered.- representing present market conditions. LYTTELTON.
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No. 51.
CEYLON.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 2.43 p.m.,
2nd January, 1905.)
TELEGRAM
[Answered by No. 55.]
Instructions have been sent by telegraph to Chief Ordnance Officer, apparently from the Admiralty, to dismantle fortifications at Trincomalee and hold in readiness guns for transport to England, but no notification of such a decision has been sent to me or to General Officer Commanding. Has it been decided to dismantle the fortifications?-BLAKE.
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(No. 512.)
No. 53.
CEYLON.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 9 January, 1905.)
[Ordinance sanctioned, 4 February, 1905. No. 62. L.F.)
SIR,
The Queen's Cottage, Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, 17 December, 1904. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 176, of 17th May last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure, an authen- ticated transcript, in duplicate, of an Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council, and assented to by me, No. 19 of 1904, intituled An Ordinance to amend The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1898.'"
2. I enclose a statement by the Attorney-General to the effect that the Royal Assent may properly be given to the Ordinance.
3. The object and provisions of the Ordinance are explained in the enclosed copy of a report by the Attorney-General.
I have, &c.,
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor, &c.
Enclosure 1 in No. 53.
ORDINANCE enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
No. 19 of 1904.
AN ORDINANCE to amend "The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1898.”
HENRY A. Blake.
Whereas it is expedient to amend in certain particulars" The Defence Contri- Preamble. bution Ordinance, 1898 :" Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows
1. This Ordinance shall be construed and read as one with "The Defence To be read Contribution Ordinance, 1898," hereinafter referred to as " the principal Ordinance," with Ordi- and this Ordinance and the principal Ordinance may be cited together as Defence Contribution Ordinances, 1898 and 1904.”
2 of 1898.
"The Dance No.
2. For Section 4 of the principal Ordinance the following section shall be Section 4 substituted:
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↑ No. 38.
4 No. 47.
§ 42467: not printed.
No. 48.
• 42509; not printed.
† No. 51.
of Ordi-
nance No.
‡ No. 39.
2 of 1898 amended.
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