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Dr. SMARTT : I should think that meets it. Our difficulty is the same as the difficulty of the Surveyor's Institution of England. We are one of the few Colonies with a severe examination in connection with land surveying, not alone in reference to the mere surveying of land, but in connection with the other matters referred to by the Surveyors' Institution, and it would not do to allow the ordinary qualified land surveyor who had not studied the other subjects to come in and compete on even more favourable terms than our people who had studied these subjects. It is not our desire to prevent anybody from any part of the Empire coming in so long as we can arrive at a fair test. Sir JOSEPH WARD : I am quite agreeable to accept that. CHAIRMAN : Will that do, Mr. Brodeur ? Mr. BRODEUR : I do not think it would be possible for us to agree, because it would be asserting a right which we have not got at all. The Provinces have more rights than we have got ourselves. CHAIRMAN : We are not saying that you have at any rate; we only say that it is desirable and we send up the paper for consideration. Mr. BRODEUR : Then we might add a clause by which this matter be reserved for consideration. CHAIRMAN: Yes. Mr. DEAKIN : I quite agree with Mr. Brodeur that this is not a question we are entitled to speak upon with authority. I spoke on the previous question as a member of the legal profession. CHAIRMAN : Shall we adopt it in that form ? Mr. BRODEUR : Will you please read it again ? CHAIRMAN : " That it is desirable that reciprocity should be established between the respective Governments and examining authorities throughout the Empire with regard to the examination and authorisation of land surveyors, and that the Memorandum of the Surveyors' Institution on this subject be commended to the favourable consideration of the several Governments." That sends it to everybody. Mr. BRODEUR : Would that include both the Federal and the Provincial Governments? CHAIRMAN : Yes, they are the examining authority. Sir WILFRID LAURIER : That is a pious wish and nothing else.

Thirteenth Day. 8 May 1907.

Reciprocity as to Surveyors.

Resolution XVI., |>. ix.

CHAIRMAN : The subjects for to-morrow are Naturalization, the Extension of British Interests in the Pacific, Imperial Cables, and there is the Notice which Mr. Deakin handed in this morning; he also wishes to refer to the organization of the Colonial Office, and I would like to get the final decision of the Conference with regard to the publication of the proceedings. That as far as I know is everything except two things, one, a