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The following papers on this subject have been received through 

 the Colonial Office : 



Colonial Office to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



Downing Street, 



3rd January, 1908. 



Sir, 



With reference to the letter from 



am 



you for your information the enclosed copy of a despatch from 

 the Governor of Jamaica on the subject of the importation into 

 the Colony of plants, seeds, &c, from certain portions of the 

 British Empire. 



I am, etc., 

 _ - (Signed) C. P. LUCAS. 



The Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



The Governor of Jamaica to Colonial Office. 



King's House, Jamaica, 



My Lord, 



With reference to Sir H. W 



December 



inform 



~^v* ^ C v, oluwCi , j.oof, i nave rne nonour to inrorm your L.omsnip 

 that, under the power given by " The Seeds and Plants Importa- 

 tion Law, 1884," I have by Proclamation revoked the proclamation 

 of 2nd December, 1887, prohibiting the importation into this 

 island of seeds or plants or any description of earth or soil or any 

 article packed therewith that may have come either directly or 

 indirectly from Natal, South India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java and 

 *i]i, and have in the same Proclamation (two copies of which are 

 annexed) prescribed the conditions under which alone the im- 

 portation of any of the articles specified shall be permitted that 



mav have nnmp frnm a«-r. ~e xu„ ...... ■ ... . ,. , 



2. I have taken this action 



mentioned 



n;t*«i inTr. a « 1S actl0n on the recommendation of the 



tnl S 1 " °t U ^ llC hardens a nd Plantations, the Board of Agricul- 

 luie, tne Jamaica Agricultural s^; u ^ ««,i +u~ n„ :„«;««<». nf 



a • ix * Agricultui 

 Agriculture for the West ] 

 ship will be so good as to c 

 Kew, to be informed of it. 



Gardens 



tw oc t^~Tl : c waB a representation from Mr. Fawceti 

 fn? Sit consignment of Para Rubber was not quite success- 



and wI We a S ing that the Proclamation against Ceylon 

 hfhad coniuH^ m ^ ht be withdra wn, and Mr. Fawcett added that 

 Moun ain rnfii *H ° Wn T S of the most important of the Blue 

 no taTr no w tn ^ r 1 that the y a ^ reed * hat there would be 



no aangei now to our coffeo of in<W;™ ,.„-xu u >, ■ *„*„;„ 



I have, etc., 



(Signed) Sydney Olivier, 



The Right Honourable Governor 



The Earl of Elgin, K.G., etc., etc. 



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