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CONFIDENTIAL.

BRITISH GUIANA.

Appendix No. 1 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.

Guiana Civil List Correspondence. Explanations and Precis of the British

on Saturday last.] [To be substituted for the Copy circulated

PRINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE Fabruary 1849.

CONFIDENTIAL.

MAURITIUS.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Appendix No. 2 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.

Memorandum of the proceedings

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.

Sir Wm. Gomm, No. 225 ;

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 adopted for the purpose of securing a fair and impartial representation of the interests of all classes

in the colony, with a view to aid the home and the local Governments in the adoption of such measures as the present depressed state of all interests in the colony imperatively calls for."

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