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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![other. The practice is that every delegate reports to his own Government, and unless he wishes to make any special remarks on the report of the delegates he simply forwards it. Mr. LOW: May I ask that the delegates who represent the different Islands should be furnished with a copy for each of the papers, and one for himseK? I should like to get four copies. The PRESIDENT: There will be a large number of copies printed, and it is proposed • that a certain number of copies should be sent to each Govern- ment, not to-day but by the next mail. Mr. McKINNEY : Will the Bill so far as it goes be reprinted before it is settled ? The PRESIDENT: It w«n't go through the hands of the draftsman any more except for re-arrangement, Mr. BERKELEY: Might I ask if delegates will be furnished with copies of the BiU ? The PRESIDENT: You wHl get a draft Bill when you get your proceedings next Mail, as an annex to these pro- ceedings. Mr. BERKELEY : What was the course adopted when the Conference took place in Barbados on Telegraphs ? I am under the impression the report was sent in to the Governor of the Colony in which it sat. The president : There was simply a series of resolutions on that occasion. I had it looked up from the records when the Delegates returned to this colony from the Telegraph Conference at Barbados. They made a special report of their own to the Governor of this colony and only enclosed in that the resolutions arrived at by the Con- ference. I can only presume from that that no report was drawn up. Dr. crane : There are some reso- lutions which I understand members have to propose. Although naturally they will come at the end of the pro- ceedings, as we have nothing else to con- sider but the Report, I think we might go through them now to save time. The PRESIDENT: As really the only business now before the Confer- ence would be the confirming of two days' minutes, this afternoon's minutes, and the confirming of the Report, if there are resolutions which any member has to move, we might have them moved now and put in afterwards at the end of the proceedings. Dr. crane : Then, Sir, in accord- ance with that permission, I desire to express here the feelings of the Con- ference towards our President:— [See Minutes, Seventh Sitting. Page 90.] I beg to move that, and to ask that it may be recorded on the minutes. Dr. PRINGLE: I beg to second that. Mr. SANDERSON: I beg to sup- port that resolution. I do so with great pleasure. I feel, Sir, that we owe you a deep debt of gratitude for the way in which yon have not only con- ducted these proceedings but also for the way in which you have helped us, for had you not given us that assistance it would have been simply impossible for us in the time at our disposal to have got through the work in so short a period. It is only those who have experience of the duties—not only the duties, but the actual work— which devolves upon a person filling the post of President of a Conference or any similar assembly, who can tell what that work really is. It does not mean that you sit with us here in the day ; but I am sure you have had to sit up night after night to a veiy late hour to enable you to complete the work we have been doing in the day. It is en- tirely through your doing so, and the way in which that work has been per- formed by you that we have been able to complete our duties in the short space of time at our disposal. Mr. BERKELEY: I desire to add my voice in support of the resolution. Dr. crane : I shall be glad to have an expression of opinion from members, whether the resolution expresses their unanimous opinion. Several Delegates: Thoroughly unani- mous. Mb. LOW: As representing the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0229.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
