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We thank your Honour for receiving this deputation and the patience and courtesy shown to us.

We beg to subscribe ourselves on behalf of the Indian community,

Your Honour's obedient servants,

M. K. Gandhi and three others

Colonial Office Records No. 181, Vol. 41


 * 11Enclosure No. 1 in Schedule of Correspondence published by order of the Legislative Assembly of Natal on April 21, 1896

A Circular Letter to Legislator (1-7-1894)
DURBAN, July 1, 1894 TO

SIR, We, the undersigned, have sent copies of this letter under registered cover to the Honourable Members of both the Honourable the Legislative Council and the Honourable the Legislative Assembly, with a request to answer the questions asked in the enclosed. You will lay us under deep obligation, if you would be good enough to fill in the reply column of the enclosed memorandum, with any remarks that you may choose to make in the remarks column, and sign and send the same back to the first undersigned at the above address.

We beg to remain,

Sir,

M. K. Gandhi and Four Others

1. Do you conscientiously say that the Franchise Law Amendment Bill is a strictly just measure without needing any modification or change?

2. Do you think it just that those Indians, who have not been able, from some cause or other, to