PP05/3342 [Handwritten in red ink]

[Stamp] DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS No 05/4896

No. 3328-52-1.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERECE AND INDUSTRY.

(Emigration)

From

W. L HARVEY, Esq., C.I.E.,

Secretary to the Government of India,

[Italicised]

To

The Secretary to the Department of External Affairs, Commonwealth of Australia, MELBOURNE.

Simla, [handwritten date] the 7th [back to typed] July 1905

SIR,

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 05/3342, dated the 24th of May 1905, bringing to notice a case in which a Passport to visit Australia has been irregularly granted by a Magistrate in India.

2. The Government of the Punjab, under whom the magistrate is employed, will be requested to enquire into the matter. Before this course is taken, however, the Government of India would be glad to be informed whether a proclamation under the proviso to section 2(m) of the Australian Immigration Restriction Act, 1901 (17 of 1901), has been issued, and if so, to be favoured with a copy in order that it may be published in this country. The Government of India presume that a proclamation under this clause has been issued, as Mrs. Fatteh Mahomed Din, who is not the wife of a prohibited immigrant, would otherwise have apparently been entitled to claim admission into the Commonwealth.

I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant,

[Signature of WL Harvey]

Secretary to the Government of India.

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