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to be determined on the Master
to the ship and the office of the
VA
Quar in concert.
I should here state that
a guard was sent, composed of 22 non-commissioned officers and
men of the 59th Regiment and seven European Constables, the latter to act as Turnkeys and the whole under the Command of Lieutenant Shinkwin of the 59th Regiment
The rate at which the vessel
for this
was
taken for
purpose was
$25 for each Chinese, $35 for
each of the guard and $60 for the officer, the Ship finding provisions
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and the men have been ordered
after effecting the debarkation their prisoners to proceed in the
Ship to Singapore and return by the first Steamer. I expect they will be absent from the Colony
about three weeks.
I have addressed the Governor of the Straits' Settlements requesting his kind offices on their behalf.
It must be recollected
that in the present Monsoon it
is absolutely necessary
that they
return in a Steamer, and that as Admiral Sir Michael Seymour
could not
spare a
a war Steamer