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and to request you to convey my cordial thanks to the Legislative Council for having voted a contribution of '·

£700 (payable in two equal instalments in 1899 and 1900),

£1,000

£1,000

towards the expenses of the School of Tropical Medicine and the Commission appointed for the investigation of malarial fever.

6798.

GENTLEMEN,

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

No. 184.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

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Downing Street, April 4, 1899. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to request you, with reference to the letter from this Department of the 9th of November last, to transfer to the Fund for the payment of the expenses of the School of Tropical Medicine and the Commission appointed for the investigation of malarial fever the sums of £1,000 from Gold Coast funçls, £1,000 from Lagos funds, and £350 from Trinidad funds.

A further sum of £350 should be paid over next year from Trinidad funds, making a total contribution from that colony of £700,

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

9017.

SIR,

No. 186.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS and SIERRA LEONE.

CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received April 12, 1899.)

[Answered by No. 197.] ·

Downing Street, London, April 11, 1899. - WITH reference to your letter No. 25029 of the 9th of November, 1898,* and to subsequent correspondence. I have the honour to enclose in original, for return, letterst which we have received from the Governments of the Straits Settlements and Sierra Leone stating that the sums of $5,000) and £150 (part of a contribution of £300) have been respectively voted towards the expense of the Malarial Fever Commission and the School of Tropical Medicine.

2. We propose, with the approval of the Secretary of State, to place these sums to the credit of the above funds.

9257.

No. 187.

I have. &c..

M. A. CAMERON.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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SIR,

No. 185.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received April 11, 1899.)

Foreign Office, April 10, 1899.

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, Mr.Sharpe, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a despatch relating to the arrival of the Malaria Commission at Blantyre in the British 16 Feb./99 Central Africa Protectorate.

No. 45,

I am, &c.,

T. H. SANDERSON.

Enclosure in No, 185,

(Central Africa. No. 45.)

BRITISH GUIANA,

Governor SIR W. J. SENDALL to MR. CHAMBERLAIN,

(No. 81.)

(Received April 13, 1899.)

[Answered by No. 193.]

Government House, Georgetown, March 29, 1899.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to transinit herewith a copy of a resolution passed at the Annual Session of the Combined Court authorizing the expenditure of a sum not exceeding $2,400 as a contribution to the School of Tropical Medicine.

2. In view of the present condition of the finances of the Colony I regret that I did not feel justified in approaching the Court with a view of increasing this vote, as suggested in the fourth paragraph of your despatch, No. 343, of the 25th of November

last.

I have, &c.,

WALTER J. SENDALL, Governor.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

The Residency, Zomba, British Central Africa,

February 16, 1899.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to inform Your Lordship that Doctors Stephens and Chris- tophers, two of the members of the Malaria Commission, reached this Protectorate about a fortnight ago.

As was arranged in England before my return here, Doctor Stephens and Doctor Christophers are making, for the present, their headquarters at Blantyre.

Doctor Daniels, the third member of the Commission, is expected to arrive from India in about six weeks' time.

In the matter of the payment of salary, &c., I am carrying out the financial in- structions laid down in Your Lordship's despatches, Nos. 171 and 172 of the 2nd and 7th December, 1898.

Her Britannic Majesty's

I have, &c.,

ALFRED SHARPE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Enclosure in No. 187.

COMBINED COURT-ANNUAL SESSION, 1899.-RESOLUTION NO. XIV.

Be it Resolved, That this Court sanctions the expenditure of a sum not exceeding $2,400 as the contribution of this Colony towards the expenses of establishment in England of a School of Tropical Medicine, and of a Committee of Enquiry into Malaria.

Passed in Combined Court, this 13th day of March, 1899.

CHARLES T. Cox, Clerk,

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