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We have already at great Expense adopted every measure to Ensure our safety which is vital to us; but Compelled to solicit that further
Assistance and protection which it is the duty and within the power of government alone to afford, and which no private establishment
can possibly furnish.
The very great amount of valuable property stored in and about our premises gives a further incentive that aid which is essential to its
Security, and which is now at the disposition of the Authorities.
With this view we would respectfully bring before your Excellency's consideration the following
Measures which have themselves been suggested.
A number of sailors from the lowest classes of the Chinese, and whom we have reason to regard with suspicions characters, have located themselves