Cette proposition est adoptee. 



Le Pkbsident fait donner lecture de la lettre sui- 

 vante qu'il a adressee au gouvernement pour lui sou- 

 mettre le budget pour I'Exposition de 1884 : 



" Port-Louis, 3rd August 1883. 

 " May it please Your Excellency, 



" The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences decided 

 at one of its meetings, last year, that an Intercolonial 

 Exhibition should be held in the course of next year 

 (1884). Our late President the Hon. Henri Pitot 

 applied to the Lieutenant-Governor, Honorable Napier 

 Broome for a subsidy which the Government has always 

 granted for the purpose. H. E. the Lt.-Governor 

 requested our late President to furnish him with the 

 Estimates for the Exhibition in question, which measure 

 is usually adopted on such occasions. 



" Our President the Hon. Pitot having died in the 

 interval, I, his successor, called personally on the 

 Lieutenant-Governor at Reduit for the same object 

 requesting His Excellency to grant us, if possible the 

 subsidy asked for by my Predecessor. The Lieutenant- 

 Governor's answer was, that being on the eve of his 

 departure from the Colony, it would be more desirable 

 for the Society to apply to his successor, to Your 

 Excellency, for tho said grant. 



" Being pressed by time as regards the corres- 

 pondence with the sugar-producing colonies which we 

 desire to invite to our Exhibition, I beg to submit to 

 Your Excellency's favorable consideration the Approx„ 



