CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900 — Page 724

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BANGKOK.

May 23rd. 1900.

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Monsieur le Ministre:-

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Your Royal Highness's note of the 16th. instant

forwarding copies of the Royal Decree on Quarantine

of May 9th, 1900.

Your Royal Highness does not ask me to

take the necessary steps to enforce the quarantine

against British ships, but I presume that it is in-

tended that measures should be taken to make the

quarantine applicable to all ships, whether Siamese

or Foreign, and as a matter of urgency I can, if

necessary, make a regulation under which the quaran-

tine may be enforced against British ships.

Before doing this, however, I should like

to be informed that it is the desire of the Siamese

Government that I should make such a regulation and

also I should like to receive an assurance from Your

Royal Highness

Prince Devawongse Varoprakar,

&&.

&C.,

&C.,

Royal