No. 11.— 1858-9.] 



PROCEEDINGS, 1859. 



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by the Committee of Management to forward to you (herewith enclosed) 

 200 copies of the Prospectus, with the request, that you will have the 

 goodness to transmit them to the Governments of the above mentioned 

 Colonies, with a view to their being distributed there amongst those 

 persons who are most likely to take an interest in and support our 

 undertaking. 



You are requested also to make it generally known to these Govern- 

 ments, that all expenses on account of freight and/luties, (live animals 

 excepted,) will be defrayed by the Society of Arts and Sciences, and 

 that the following Regulations must be strictly attended to by the 

 contributors : — 



1st. — All articles intended for the Exhibition are to be expedited, 

 so as to arrive here before the 15th of August, 1859. 



2nd. — The cases to be addressed as follows: — 



To the Committee of Management of the Industrial Exhibition, 

 Government House, Mauritius. 



3rd. — Each case must contain an accurate list of its contents, together 

 with their uses (if necessary) to be signed by the Contributor. 

 A duplicate of such list to be forwarded by Post, addressed as 

 above. 



4th. — In the event of the Contributor desiring to dispose of one or 

 more of the Articles exhibited, the sale price of the same to 

 be written on the List. 



5th. — All articles either not sold, or for the disposal of which in 

 Mauritius no specific directions shall have been given, will be 

 returned to the Colony from whence they came, free of expense. 



I have, &c, 

 (Signed) W. W. R Kerr, 



President of the Committee. 



To the Hon'ble the Colonial Secretary. 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE SOCIEY OF ARTS. 



Circular. Doivning Street, January 6th, 1859. 



Sir, — I transmit to you enclosed copies of a correspondence which 

 has passed between the Society of Arts, relating to the expediency 

 of discriminating accurate statements of the resources of the Colonies, 

 and of the bearing of such resources upon Trade. 



You will perceive that, in the judgment of the Society, that object 

 may best be accomplished by stimulating some competent persons or 

 existing Societies in the several Colonies, to place themselves in 



