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7452.

No. 576.

(ВАНАМАН.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

MY LORD,

Temple, July 2, 1869. We are honoured with your commands, signified in Sir Frederic Rogers' letter of this day, stating that with reference to the Report which we favoured your Lordship with on the 7th May,* in which we suggested that the Governor of the Bahamas should be instructed that no vessel belonging, or reasonably suspected to belong, to the Cuban insurgents, or to be engaged in their service, should be admitted into our ports, inasmuch as the insurgents, not being recognised as belligerents, could be entitled to no public ships, he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of the Bahamas, enclosing a memorandum from his Attorney General giving his interpretation of the clause in our Report, to which Sir Frederic has above referred; and further stating that your Lordship would be glad if we would inform you whether the construction put upon our former opinion by Mr. Anderson is correct, and whether the course indicated by Mr. Anderson with respect to the issue of instructions is the proper course.

In obedience to your Lordship's commands, we have the honour to

Report

That the construction put upon our former opinion by Mr. Anderson is correct, and that the course indicated by him in respect to the issue of instructions is the proper

one.

&c.

The Right Hon. the Earl Granville, K.G.,

&c.

We have, &c. (Signed)

R. P. COLLIER.

&c.

J. D. COLERIDGE.

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