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I am replying to your letter of 29 May, which was

acknowledged on 2 June, about Bermuda.

You question David Stephen's statement in his letter to you of 19 April that the Bermuda House of Assembly's decision to retain the death penalty was a decision of a body democratically elected by the entire adult population of the territory. Under the Bermuda Constitution British subjects, that is citizens of any Common alth country, of the age of twenty-one or upwards who eith:

have been ordinarily resident i

immediately preceeding period

possess Bermudian status or

Bermuda throughout the

three years, are qualified to

vote in elections to the House E Assembly. There is no discrimination on grounds of rae or colour.

In your letter you speak c constituencies in black areas containing four times as many voters as those in white residential areas. I attach a list of the number of registered voters at the last General Election in 1976 from which you will see that the smallest constituency (St George's North) contained 914 registered voters and the largest (Warwick West) had 1,983 registered voters.

Greg Lee Esq.

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