Herewith (together with the Certificate above-named) is in strict accordance with the 23rd Section of the said Act providing for the very case mentioned in pointing the absence of the Ship from her Port of Registering.
Should any additional Security be required by your Honor to ensure the integrity of the transaction, I am perfectly willing to give it and having this fairly proved to your Honors, (so far as documents and my own Declaration can prove), that I am justly entitled to Register the Ship as the Property of a British Subject, I look with every Confidence to your Honors directing the Collector & Controller at Liverpool (the nearest Port to my Residence) to grant such Certificate of Registry to be forwarded by you to the Board Hong Kong in China, at which Port the Vessel is sure to be found and satisfactorily identified as the same Vessel for which Registering is claimed, to such of the British Authorities there and under such restrictions as Your Honors may deem it prudent to adopt.
I have the honor to be,
Your Honor's obedient servant,
(signed)
C. L. Reig,
Sole owner of the said Vessel.
Frederick D Z ... & Mether to the Commissioners.
ES4 M. Erstens.