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173 No. NAI DT S1983A

Extract from minutes of a meeting of the Executive Council (C.2/33)

DUBLIN, 11.30 am, 17 December 1923

POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS.

Consideration was given to a reply drafted by the Minister of External Affairs to Colonial Office Despatch No. 689 of the 29th November relative to the powers[,] duties and functions of his Department as provided for in the Ministers and Secretaries Bill at present before the Oireachtas.1

The draft was approved subject to the omission of all references to the proposed appointment of a Minister at Washington.2

1The detailed draft reply is reproduced below as No. 174. The actual reply was much shorter and is reproduced as No. 177.

2See below No. 177.

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