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Enclosure. LEADING WITH THE ENEMY. FEES AND AOENTS' GhARGES IN RESPECT OF PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND Trade-marks. Board of Trade, 7 Whitehall Gardens, S.W., 15th July, 1918. Whereas by a license dated 7th day of December, 1.915, the Board of Trade, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by certain Royal Proclamations relating to trading with the enemy, authorized all persons in the United Kingdom or in any part of His Majesty's Dominions to pay any fees necessary for obtaining the grant, registration, or renewal of patents, designs, or trademarks in an enemy country, and to pay to enemy agents their charges and expenses in relation to such matters, and also to pay, on behalf of an enemy, fees payable in the United Kingdom or in His Majesty's Dominions on applications for the grant, registration, or renewal of patents, designs, or trade-marks, and to pay the charges and expenses of agents in relation thereto : And whereas the said license was amended by a further license of the Board of Trade dated sth September, 1917: And whereas it appears to the Board of Trade that such payments as aforesaid should no longer be authorized : Now, therefore, the Board of Trade hereby revoke the said licenses, and give notice that all such payments as aforesaid are from the date hereof prohibited under the Proclamations relating to trading with the enemy. H. Llewellyn Smith, A Secretary to the Board of Trade. (Extraof from (he London Gazette No. 30798, Kith .Inly, 1918.)

No. 32. New Zealand, Dominions No. 401. My Lord, — Downing Street, 26th July, 1918. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the observations of your Ministers, a copy of a letter from the Honorary Organizing Secretary of the Overseas Sailor and Soldier Scholarships, inquiring as to the rules which obtain in the Dominions with regard to calls to the Bar and the admission of solicitors, and as to the advantages which would be conceded to students who are able to produce certificates of having attended lectures of the Council of Legal Education. I have, &o, WALTER H. LONG. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.0., G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Overseas Sailor and Soldier Scholarships. Sir,— ■ Seymour House, Waterloo Place, S.W. 1, Bth July, 1918. Among the officers and men awarded Overseas Scholarships there are several who are reading law with the intention of following the legal profession on return to their own countries. Some desire to be called to the Bar of England if opportunity offers, and it has been ascertained that the cases of these is capable of being dealt with by the Inns of Court and the Council of Legal Education, who, it is believed, will sympathetically consider applications for concessions of a reasonable nature. There are, however, others who will not be able to remain in this country for a sufficient period to enable them to be called to the English Bar, and Lord Selborne desires me to ascertain the rules which obtain in the various Dominions with regard to calls to the Bar, the admission of solicitors, and what advantages' will be conceded there to students who are able to produce certificates of having attended lectures of the Council of Legal Education, and of having passed certain of their examinations, although not necessarily of all such examinations as in one time would have enabled them to be called to the Bar here. The possession of this information would enable the Council of Legal Education to put before any student from overseas a definite scheme capable of practical realization. I am to suggest that, the matter might perhaps be deemed worthy of consideration byDominions' Ministers now in this country, in the interests of the men who have had their preparation for a professional career interrupted by the call to serve. It is thought, moreover, that the association of students of the United Kingdom with those from the Dominions in the study of law cannot but produce results ultimately beneficial in their effect upon the legal problems of the Empire. I have, &c, E, W. W. Lascelles, Lieut.-Colonel, Hon. Organizing Secretary, Overseas Sailor anil Soldier Scholarships. The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W. 1.