MR. BRYNMOR JONES (Swansea District)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, having regard to the fact that a proclamation was issued on or about the 4th July by Lord Kitchener, as Administrator of the Transvaal Colony, declaring in substance that where parties possessed of mineral rights in the Transvaal under contracts or leases made before the outbreak of the war have been prevented from fulfilling their obligations under such contracts or leases owing to the state of war, such parties shall be released from their obligations under such contracts or leases from the outbreak of war until a date to be fixed; whether he will lay the proclamation upon the Table of the House.
§ THE SECRETARY Of STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN,) Birmingham, W.The proclamation shall be laid.