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No. 7.

TRANSVAAL.

COLONIAL OFFICE to LAW OFFICERS.

[New Constitution: Draft of Letters Patent, Instructions, and an Order in Council.]

(Secret.)

GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street,

March 22, 1905.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, for your con- sideration, the draft of Letters Patent, Instructions, and an Order in Council which it is proposed to submit to His Majesty in Council on Monday next, the 27th instant, for the purpose of granting representative institutions to the Colony of the Transvaal. 2. These drafts have been prepared in this Department with the assistance of Sir Richard Solomon, the Attorney-General of the Transvaal, who is at present in this country, and though they have still to be subjected to final criticism and revision on unimportant matters of detail, they may be regarded, so far as all matters of principle are concerned, as in their final shape and as carrying out the policy which His Majesty's Government, after careful consideration, have decided.

Patent,

3. I am to enclose copies of the Instruments in which the existing Constitution Letters of the Colony is embodied and to request you to report:-

Whether, in your opinion, the drafts are sufficient and proper for the purpose Sept. 23, intended?

4. I am to request the favour of your reply at as early a date as possible.

1902.

Instruc-

tions.

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Reference :-

C.O.885

The Law Officers of the Crown.

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Report.

I am, &c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

That these drafts are, in our opinion, sufficient and proper for the purpose intended,

Commis- sioner, Lord Milner, August 7, 1901. Commis- sione, Sir

A. Lawley, Sept. 24, 1902.

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