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Curator of the Government Botanical Station shall be a member : 
and that sub-committees in different parts of the colony, of which 
the District don are to be members, be formed for 
aiding the committee 
22. The. hows are » to be held in Freetown in December or 
ptr this season being about crop time for most of our 
8. The articles exhibited are to include ——nÓ of all 
s of agricultural produce, in the natural as well as manu- 
fainted state, botanical specimens, and live miming It is suggested 
that exhibitors of farm produce shall be the producers or their 
agents, "^ not mere collectors. 
Between the months of July and October next before the 
show, oriit intending exhibitor of farm produce should send in 
to the committee a notic ce of his iion: to exhibit, and give 
Pei satisfaction that produce at the show comes sees «€ 
Provision should be made for the inspection in Nov 
of. ey i which or the p from which it is E 
shall compet 
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32. Though us Me may 3 open for all kinds of produce, 
whether coming from owners beyond the colony, I would suggest 
that only farmers and inhabitants within the colony should be 
entitled to compete for prizes. 
I have, &c , 
(Signed) SAML. LEWIS. 
His Excellency Colonel F. Cet C.M.G., 
Adm 
PEIR of the Governmen 
the Colony of Sierra Leone. 
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF SIERRA LEONE TO THE COLONIAL 
OFFICE 
‘Sierra Leone, 
21st t November, 1894. 
My LORD Meroe 
IH the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your 
lordship's bd uc. No. 201 of the 18th of September last, on the 
subject of a scheme for the promotion of agricultural industry i in 
this colony and to inform your lordship that the French Company’s 
farm fulfils the requirements specified in the letter from Kew, 
that it was favoura x en reported on by Mr. Crowther, the Curator 
of the Gold Coast Colony, on the occasion of his visit to this 
colony in April last, and that I am now concluding the purchase 
of the qe in x 
With respect to a curator and overseer, provision has been 
made in the etree for 1895 which have been passed for salaries 
from £200 and £80 respectively for these officials, but I gather 
from the letter from Kew, that the latter, if a black man from the 
West Indies, would require about £150 to £180 a year, and if so 
a curator shouid in due proportion be paid a salary at least from 
about £200 to £250, rising by annual increment of £10. 
. In view of the recommendation in paragraph 3 of the letter 
from Kew and the suggestion of your lordship that I should 
apply to Jamaica for an overseer, I propose doing so by the next 
