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■•' Downiug Street, 

 " 12th Marcla, 1875. 

 '■ To the Officer Administering the Government of Mauritius. 

 " Sir, 



" 1. I have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty's 

 Govermeut have accepted the invitation of the President of 

 the United States to take part in the International Exhibi- 

 tion to be held at Philadelphia in 187G, and have entrusted 

 the interests of the British Section to the Lords of the Com- 

 mittee of Privy Council on Education. 



" 2. Her Majesty's Croverument attach special importance to 

 the -worthy reoreseutation of Colonial Productions and Manu- 

 factures at this Exhibition, which will be opened on the 10th 

 of April 1876, and 1 request that jou will bring the matter 

 under the consideration of your Executive Council, and that 

 you will give the widest publicity to it in the Colony under 

 your Government. 



'' 3. Mr Owen, C. B., the Director of the South Kensington 

 Museum, who has been appointed by the Lord President of 

 Her Majesty's Priv^y Council Executive Commissioner for the 

 British Section, has been informed by the General Director 

 of the Exhibition that in May next it will be necessary that 

 he should know approximately the amount of space required 

 by Great Britain and the Colonies, and that the fullest details 

 must be furnished before the 1st of December next. 



'• 4. I hope to be able to transmit to you by the next mail 

 the General Regulations of the Exhibition. 



" 5. It will be desirable that yoa should inform me by Tele- 

 graph, as soon as it can be ascertained, of the probable amount 

 of space that will be required by the Coign y under your 

 Government. 



