CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4] — Page 173

Enclosure 1.

Inclosure

which was as follows:

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Your telegram of 22nd. If not done already do not introduce bill pending further instructions.

2.

I enclose a Report by the Attorney-

-General on the subject in which he advises that there is

sufficient machinery for dealing with the offence involved in

the primary object of the resolution, but to place the matter

beyond doubt he submits a Bill, which I enclose, to amend the

Chinese Emigration Ordinance 1889 which will enable the Court

to deal with persons who traffic in the identification papers

of returned emigrants from Australia and other places and who

are thereby enabled to evade the Immigration Restriction Laws

of such places.

3.

With regard to the proposed enactment

throughout the Empire I have to assure you that this Colony

will gladly co-operate in any workable scheme that may be

agreed upon at the Imperial Conference and I await your

instructions as to the lines on which the proposed legisla-

-tion is to be framed.

4.

I assume that the general principle

would be that if any Dominion or Colony of the Empire had

reason to believe that a conspiracy existed in another Colony

to defeat, or render inoperative one of its laws, it would

notify