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No. 190.

(MAURITIUS.)

ley, 31st

34860

COLONIAL OFFICE to LAW OFFICERS.

[Title of the Government of Mauritius to the copper plate on which the

twopenny stamps of that Colony were engraved in 1847.]

GENTLEMEN,

penny

and

Downing Street,

9th August, 1915.

WITH reference to the letter of your predecessors in office, dated the 8th July, 1913,* I am to lay before you (in addition to the papers submitted to your

Mr. Stand- predecessors) the accompanying further papers, as noted in the margin, on the subject of the title of the Government of Mauritius to the copper plate on which the penny and twopenny stamps of that Colony were engraved in 1847.

March,

1914.

The Act- 2. I am to ask you to be good enough to consider the subject in view of the ing Gover-

papers now submitted to you and of the Report* of your predecessors in office, and nor, Confi- dential, to report whether proceedings may, in your opinion, be taken for the recovery of 21st March, the plate with a reasonable prospect of success.

1914.

J.t.-Col.

Colnaghi,

18th April,

1914.

Governor,

I am, &c.,

H. J. READ,

for the Under-Secretary of State.

Confiden- 40989

tial, 15th

April, 1915,

REPORT.

That the further papers submitted to us (in addition to those submitted to our predecessors) do not appear to add anything to the information before the Law Officers when their Opinion was given on the 8th July, 1913.*

Assuming that the copper plate in question can be identified with the receipt of Mr. Barnard, the engraver, we think a prima facie case of title in the Crown to the copper plate can be shown, and we can only repeat the opinion expressed by our predecessors in paragraph 5 of their Opinion above referred to.

EDWARD CARSON. F. E. SMITH,

Law Officers' Department,

1st September, 1915.

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