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Mi*. Darby’s motion really aims at is to ensure that before the present 
Buies are changed, this Association have an opportunity of fully 
discussing them. 
Mr. Darby then withdraws his motion and substitutes the follow- 
ing : — 
“ That this Association be given an assurance that an opportunity 
will be given for full discussion of the I. I. F. Enactment before it is 
made permanent at the end of the year. ” 
This motion is thereupon seconded by Mr. J. Gibson and passed 
unanim ous ]y. 
XI. The Secretary reads a letter from the Hon. Secretary of the 
forthcoming Agri-Horticultural Show in Kuala Lumpor re entries and 
other arrangements made. 
Resolved to ask the management that the judging be done by 
numbers, and not under the name of the exhibitors. 
XII. A letter from In T inland re publication of a paper devoted 
to the Rubber Industry; and a letter from the Consul of Belgium re 
International Exhibition at Brussels in 1910, are laid on the table. 
Loans to Planters. 
XIII. Mr. John I. Philips proposes: — 
"That the Resident -General be requested to issue a complete 
statement regarding the conditions regulating the issue of loans to 
planters, and that to the various statements, already published, the 
following provisions be added ; — 
1. That the vote be unlimited. 
2. That no loans be granted to public *om panics. 
3. That no loan be made on -account of any area not under cul- 
tivation at the present time. 
4. That on all valuation made by the Officer deputed, and which 
shall be final, a loan of 25% be granted, but that the property be re- 
valued at the end of every year, until the , loans become repayable. 
5. That no loan or part of a loan be devoted to any other purpose 
than that of maintenance.” 
Mr. Philips having shortly introduced and explained this motion, 
it is seconded by Mr. Yalpy and passed unanimously. 
Labour Enactment. 
XIY . Mr. Harrison says that bis attention has been drawn to the 
result of coolies being sentenced to imprisonment under Enactment 16 
of 1904 (Selangor Series). Under this Enactment a magistrate may 
order an absconding labourer, after serving his sentence, to' return to 
work on the Estate. This order, however, w T as rarely carried out, as 
at present there was nobody taking charge of the coolie on his dis- 
charge from gaol. He therefore proposed : — 
That the Residents of the Federation be asked to' instruct the 
Police to return to the Estate any coolies on their being discharged 
from gaol ; the expenses of such re-transportation to be borne by the 
Estate.” 
This motion having been seconded by Mr. Parkinson, is passed 
without discussion. 
