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those Regulations will be assented to, and will cause no difficulty or 

 injury to the Province, because they will be Regulations it is to their 

 interest and to the interest of everybody else to see observed. But if 

 Regulations are imposed by which lawful industry is hampered or 

 interfered with, by which that part of the world differs from any other, 

 and by which they are put under disadvantages nobody else suffers 

 from, and restrictions that you cannot explain, except by saying that 

 you have given to another Power all the rights that would be the riglits 

 of our own citizens anywhere else, you cannot but do serious injury to 

 the welfare of that Province. For that reason we are supply interested 

 in this question. 



My learned friends have attempted to separate the interests of Eng- 

 land from British Columbia. I venture to say the interest of one part 

 of the Empire is the interest of the whole, and if England asserts .that 

 it is her interest she is the Power to judge, and we have a right to ask, 

 as we do ask, from this Tribunal, with deference, that only such Regu- 

 lations shall be made and such restrictions imposed as in their judgnsent 

 are reasonable and consistent with the rights which upon the assumi)- 

 tion of rights at all they would have found us to possess. I thank the 

 Tribunal very much for the kindness with which they have listened 

 to me. 



The President. — And we have to thank you, and were very pleased 

 to hear you again. 



We will adjourn till the usual hour in the morning when we shall 

 expect to hear Mr. Phelps. 



[The Tribunal thereux)on adjourned till Thursday, June 22nd at 11.30 

 a. m.] 



