§ MR. LABOUCHEREI beg to ask the Postmaster General, as representing the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he will lay upon the Table a copy of the various ordinances of the late Boer Government in respect to black and white labour in the Transvaal, all changes and new regulations that have been made in these ordinances since the annexation of the Transvaal, and all correspondence on the subject between the Transvaal Government and the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, or any other persons purporting to be the representatives of the mine owners.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN (for Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN)Several of the more important enactments have already been included in the Parliamentary Papers Command 714 and Command 904. I could not undertake to lay all the various Papers asked for, but the laws and proclamations of the Transvaal have been placed in the Library. I have no knowledge of any correspondence of the nature referred to.
§ In reply to a further Question by Mr. LABOUCHERE,
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN said he believed the Command Papers referred to contained all the more important ordinances.