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has
appeared
to this Council to be merely
their duty to indicate that locality,
locality, leaving to Your Excellency the choice of the time
shall be made,
when the said delivery Your Excellency previously communicating
the same to this Council with due notice,
when a person duly authorized to receive those
remains will be
time, as soon as
ow
the
spot at the proper
their arrival
may
known; it being necessary that they brought them by
sea with the
to the character and
deceased.
Was
only
with a
a view to
discovery
negotiate with them. This Council have already taken
a note of this for the purposes declared, in their former protests, all of which they
on
renew
this occasion. This is all this Council have at present to reply to Your Excellency. Macao, 2nd January, 1850.
(Signed) Jeronimo, Bishop of Macao.
be made
"
be
due
decency dignity of the illustrious
This Council cannot avoid here
reminding Your Excellency that the facts
of your having
those
ordered the restitution of
remains as soon as
belonging
to the three Chinese
to the Banner gate
were sent to
you,
constitutes
a
most unexceptionable
proof that their detention in Your Excellency's
possession from
the
moment
of their-
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Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro. Ludgers Joaquin de Faria Neves. Miquel Pereira Emmens. Joze
Francisco de Oliveira.
Thomaz Jozé de Freitas. True Copy
[signed] A. J. de Miranda
True Translation
(signed)
G. L. d'Almada e Castro True pay
Colonial Secretary.