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without previous notice. This having been carried, he 
then moved the followinor resolution : — 
" The Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of 
British Guiana, being fully convinced of the vital 
importance to the agricultural and commercial interests 
of the colony of securing a fair-trade market in Great 
Britain for her sugar products, which form the main- 
stay of the industrial life and general prosperity of the 
colony, the members thereof, now in general meeting 
assembled, desire to endorse and emphasize the recent 
action of Agricultural Societies and Chambers of Com- 
merce throughout the West Indies, in approaching the 
Colonial Office with a view of strengthening the hands 
of the Home Government, in combating the evil effects 
of Continental bounties and kartel trusts, by the impo- 
sition of countervailing duties. And they further 
resolve that a duly certified copy of this motion be 
forwarded to His Excellency the Governor, for trans- 
mission to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State 
for the Colonies." 
He said he thought it right, with the object of making 
the Society as useful as possible, that they should 
emphasize and endorse the action of the Planters' 
Association and the Chambers of Commerce, as well as 
Societies in other Colonies. It was to be reo-retted 
that this Society had not been afforded an oppor- 
tunity of being represented on the deputation which 
lately waited on the Governor. Their Society 
was the leading agricultural body in the Colony, and 
should, therefore, have been represented. However, 
as this had not been done, the least they could do was 
to express their sympathy with the action taken. It 
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