Sessional Papers

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ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS: 1900.

Emigration (Colonies):

[Cd. 90.] Report on the Emigrants' Information Office for the year 1899 (in continuation of [c. 9196] 1899).

Hong Kong:

[Cd. 403.] Report on the New Territory at Hong Kong.

Jamaica:

P. 281

291

[Cd. 125,] Further Correspondence relating to the Finances and Government of the Island of Jamaica (in continuation of [c. 9412] and [c. 9413] 1899).

Steamship Service:

321

[Cd. 175.] Contract between the Crown Agents for the Colonies and Messrs. Elder Dempster and Company, for a Steamship Service between Jamaica and the United Kingdom, dated 19th April 1900.

Malta (Contagious Diseases) :

375

[Cd. 197.] Ordinance No. X. of 1898. The Contagious Diseases Law. 387

Public Meetings:

[Cd. 184.] Ordinance No. XI. of 1898. The Law relating to Public Meetings.

393

Pacific Cable:

[Cd. 46.] Further Correspondence relating to the proposed construction of a Cable across the Pacific Ocean (in continuation of [c. 9283] 1899).

Straits Settlements:

[Cd: 382.] Reports on the Federated Malay States for 1899.

Excise Restriction on Spirits :

397

459

[Cd. 405.] Further Papers relating to the cost of Local Excise Restrictions on the Production of Spirits (in continuation of [No. 3.Sess. 2] 1899).

West Indies (Hurricanes):

543

[Cd. 371.] Correspondence relating to the Hurricanes on 7th August and 8th September 1899 and the relief of distress caused thereby.

Colonial Reports (Miscellaneous):

[Cd. 228.] No. 13. Report on the Cook Islands for 1899.

599

731

[Cd. 402.] No. 14. Bahamas. Notes on the planting of the Pita Plant (Agave Sisalana) and the extraction and preparation of the

fibre.

747

[Cd. 427.] No. 15. Canada. Memorandum on the Legal Status of British North American Indians.

755

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. Draft of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Bill as finally adopted

II. Addresses from Colonial Legislatures