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No. 196.

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

SIR,

Downing Street, 16 March, 1914. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 21st ultimo,* I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to request you to inform Secretary Sir Edward Grey that the Opium Convention of 1912 may now be signed in respect of Southern and Northern Rhodesia, Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swazi- land.

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Enclosure 2 in No. 198.

COPY OF A MINUTE BY THE ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL,

HONOURABLE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

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In my opinion, His Excellency may properly assent to The Opium Ordi- nance, 1913," (Montserrat).

27th October, 1913.

MARTIN J. CAMACHO,

Acting Attorney-General.

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SIR,

No. 197.

I am, &c.,

HENRY LAMBERT,

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

Downing Street, 26 March, 1914. WITH reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir Edward Grey, the accompanying copies of Ordinancest passed by the Legislature of Mauritius with a view to carrying into effect the provisions of The Hague Opiumi Convention.

2. I am at the same time to request that instructions may be given for the signature of the Convention on behalf of the Colony of Mauritius and its Dependencies.

I am, &c.,

H. J. READ,

for the Under-Secretary of State.

SIR,

Enclosure 3 in No. 198.

(Leeward Islands. No. 12.)

Montserrat.

Attorney-General's Chambers, Antigua,

The Opium Ordinance, 1913.

15th April, 1914.

I HAVE the honour to report to Your Excellency on Montserrat Ordinance. No. 4 of 1913, entitled “An Ordinance to give effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the importation into and the storage and disposal of Opium, Morphine, Cocaine, and similar drugs in this Presidency."

2. The Ordinance is a transcript, mutatis mutandis, of the Antigua Ordinance dealing with the same subject.

3. In view of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State's Circular despatch of 27th December, 1913, the Ordinance will have to be amended to enable veterinary surgeons to withdraw opium.

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No. 198.

I have, &c..

T. S. SIDNEY,

His Excellency the

Attorney-General.

Governor of the Leeward Islands.

LEEWARD ISLANDS.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 12th May, 1914.)

[Copy of Enclosure 1 to Foreign Office, 28th May, 1914. L.F.] [Ordinance sanctioned, 27th May, 1914. No. 146. L.F.]

(No. 164.) SIR,

Government House, 17th April, 1914.

WITH reference to your despatch "Miscellaneous" of the 26th July, 1912, I have the honour to transmit to you the usual number of authenticated and unauthenticated copies of Ordinances No. 4 of 1913, of the Legislature of Mont- serrat, entitled "An Ordinance to give effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the importation into and the storage and disposal of Opium, Morphine, Cocaine, and similar drugs in this Presidency."

2. I enclose a copy of a minute by Mr. M. J. Camacho, the Acting Attorney- General, in which he advised that I might properly assent to this Ordinance, together with a report on the Ordinance by Mr. T. S. Sidney, K.C., the Attorney- General.

I have, &c..

H. HESKETH BELL,

Governor.

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† Enclosures in Nos. 194 and 195.

§ Not reprinted.

‡ No. 77.

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No. 199.

LEEWARD ISLANDS.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 26th May, 1914.)

[Copy of Enclosures 1 and 3 to Foreign Office, 5th June, 1914. L.F.] [Ordinance sanctioned, 2nd June, 1914. No. 147. L.F.]

Government House, 5th May, 1914.

(No. 192.) SIR,

WITH reference to your Circular despatch of the 27th December last,* I have the honour to transmit to you the usual number of authenticated and unauthenti cated copies of Ordinance No. 3 of 1914* of the Legislature of Dominica, entitled An Ordinance to give effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the importation into and the storage and disposal of Opium, Morphine. Cocaine, and similar Drugs in this Presidency."

2. I enclose a copy of a minute by Mr. T. S. Sidney, K.C.. the Attorney- General, in which he advised that this Ordinance might properly be assented to, together with the usual report on the Ordinance by the Crown Attorney at Dominica

I have, &c.,

H. HESKETH BELL,

Governor.

• Not reprinted;

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