§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there could be laid before Parliament the Agreement of the 11th August last between France and the Congo State, under which M. Listard, 1022 as Commissary of the Republic, is now organising the government of territories lying to the west of the district leased by Great Britain to the Sovereign of the Congo State and retained by him, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the district also leased by Great Britain to him at the same time, and renounced by him in an agreement with France?
THE UNDER SECRETARY or STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. GEORGE CUEZOS,) Lancashire, SouthportThe Agreement referred to is dated August 16, 1894, not 1895, as the Question implies, ft is to found on page 1002, Volume IL, of "The Map of Africa by Treaty," of which there is a copy in the House of Commons Library.