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2. Make any untrue statement in any affidavit upon application for 

 a license under this Chapter; or 



3. Obtain a license under this Chapter by means of any false state- 

 ment or misrepresentation, or by the suppression or concealment of 

 any material fact, shall be liable for every first offence to a penalty 

 not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment for a period 

 not exceeding twelve months. 



Any person convicted of a second or subsequent offence under this 

 Chapter shall, on conviction, be subject to imprisonment with hard 

 labour for a period of not less than twelve months. 



ELI DA WE, 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 



per W. B. PAYN. 

 OFFICE OF MARINE AND FISHERIES, 



October 31, 1906. 



Governor MacGregor to Lord Elgin. 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, St. John's, November 1, 1906. 



(Eeceived November 14, 1906.) 



MY LORD: I have the honour to enclose herewith copy of a letter I 

 have addressed to my Prime Minister with reference to my giving 

 approval to certain minutes of the Executive Council. 



2. It is customary in this Colony for Minutes of Council to be 

 prepared by the nine members of Council sitting as a Committee of 

 Council. A meeting of the Council is held the first Wednesday of 

 each month at Government House, presided over by the Governor, 

 at which the proceedings of the previous month are read over, ap- 

 proved, and signed by the Governor. 



I have, &c., WM. MACGREGOR. 



[Inclosure.] 



NOVEMBER 1, 1906. 



DEAR SIR ROBERT BOND: At the next monthly plenary meeting of 

 the Honourable the Executive Council certain minutes of the Com- 

 mittee of Council, referred to specifically below, will come up for 

 approval, minutes which have reference to matters that are so clearly 

 and so directly connected with the foreign relations and the foreign 

 policy of the Empire, that I feel it would be inconsistent with my 

 duty to give to them an unqualified approval without the previous 

 sanction or knoAvledge of the Secretary of State. I am sure the mem- 

 bers of the Executive Council will deem it reasonable that pending 

 reference to the Secretary of State I should ask that while I approve 

 the minutes generally, a copy of this paper with the following quali- 

 fications should be entered in the Minute Book of the Council : 



1. The Minute of Council of llth October conveyed to the Secre- 

 tary of State by telegraph on the 12th October. 



(a.) The statement that His Majesty's Government has ignored the 

 representations and entreaties of this Government is, it seems to me, 

 so expressed as to be liable to be misunderstood. The representa- 

 tions of this Government are certainly entitled to very careful and 

 respectful consideration; and personally I believe they have received 



