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passengers being mustered and the Contracts explained by the Emigration Officer all but 81 declined to go. Meport Lyall, Still + 6 = were told
-that a
certificates could be
rantist
for such passengers only as had signed their contracts and come on board willingly with a full knowledge of the premises, that this present refusal to pronced
made evidence of consent in
each case nec
necessary.
They
replied that they were not prepares
with this evidence as the contracts
had for
the most part been
witnessed
witnessed before the procurador
of Macao, they preferred therefore
to receive
a clearance for the
number now cons
-senting. There
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was no evidence of fraud Violence in collecting
collecting the men,
but on the contrary proof of
unusual care.
June 2077
(signed) W. Woodgate
7°