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conduct its own external commercial affairs and

the entrustment to the Governor of the

formal power of negotiation and concluding

agreements;

(b)

that there is nothing in the Letters Patent or

Royal Instructions, or other constitutional law,

which would preclude our making such a

declaration based on policy and practice.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

London

June 1985

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