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that outside this town there is no politics at 

 all) certain foolish people publicly proclaimed 

 a new doctrine, setting forth that the laws of 

 the land while binding upon the people did not 

 bind the Government, who was above them, and 

 when it pleased them to do so could arbitrarily 

 decline to fulfil their legal obligations under them. 

 This caused considerable uneasiness at the time, 

 though people who knew the Portuguese never 

 felt any real anxiety on the matter ; there being 

 no more honourable people where questions of 

 law are concerned than they. 



There are two classes of concessioners, with 

 one of which I have no sympathy. The man 

 who wishes to peg out a piece of land for sugar 

 planting, grazing, fruit-farming or any definite 

 enterprise is a man to welcome and encourage ; 

 but there is another class whose desire is to 

 get the word concession on to a document, and 

 w^hose intention is to exploit the document, not 

 the land, which probably has never been visited. 

 In their desire to exclude such as these, be they 

 Portuguese or " foreign," the Government should 

 command the support of all right - thinking 

 people. 



The Portuguese Government are aware that 

 it is a dangerous policy to allow the Province 

 to continue in the condition of undevelopment 



