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Companies generally will concur with him in this opinion, and 

 favour him with their co-operation in the matter. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



{Signed) Wm. Somerville, 



Assistant Secretary. 



The Secretary, 



Railway Clearing House, 



Seymour Street, Euston Square, 

 London, N.W. 



IV. 



Minute of the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 appointing a Departmental Committee on Railway Rates. 

 I hereby appoint a Committee to enquire as to the rates 

 charged by railway companies in Great Britain in respect of the 

 carriage of foreign and Colonial farm, dairy, and market garden 

 produce from the port of shipment or of arrival to the principal 

 urban centres, and to report whether there is any evidence to 

 show that preferential treatment is accorded to such produce 

 as compared with home produce, and, if so, what further steps- 

 should be taken either by legislation or otherwise to secure the 

 better enforcement of the law in the matter. 



The Committee will be constituted as follows : — 



The Right Hon. the Earl of Jersey, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. 



Sir James Lyle Mackay, G.C.M.G., K.C.I. E. 



Col. Sir Herbert Jekyll, K.C.M.G., R.E., an Assistant 



Secretary of the Board of Trade. 

 Sir Charles John Owens. 

 Mr. Alfred Baldwin, M.P. 



Mr. Ernest George Haygarth Brown, a Superintending 

 Inspector of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. 

 Col. William Slaney Kenyon-Slaney, M.P. 

 And I hereby appoint — 



The Right Hon. the Earl of Jersey to be Chairman ; and 

 Mr. Edgar Cooper Stoneham of the Board of Trade to be 

 Secretary of the said Committee. 



{Signed) On SLOW, 

 President of the Board of Agriculture 

 22nd April, 1904. and Fisheries. 



