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resources, and tend to increase the demand for their productions, should 

 select some competent person, or existing Society in the Colony, to 

 frame a complete statement of ,the points upon which it is considered 

 that the public of the mother-country are not sufficiently informed. 



2. — That the individual or public body thus selected, should at once 

 be put in direct communication with the Society of Arts. 



3. — That the person or persons thus chosen should also designate, and 

 obtain the consent of, some well-informed person in this country, either 

 himself to read, at an evening meeting of the Society, the paper prepared 

 in the Colony, or to confer with the Council as to the best method of 

 securing their common objects. 



Further proceedings may be later indicated, or may arise from the 

 steps proposed. 



Should any Colony consider that a different course of proceeding would 

 better suit the peculiar circumstances of that Colony, the Society of 

 Arts will be quite prepared to receive such suggestions. 



I have, &c, 

 (Signed) P. Le Neve Foster, 

 Secret art/. 



To the Earl of Carnarvon, &c, Her Majesty's Under Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies. 



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