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du respect to the question
by the
roused
Consul at Amoy, we
take for granted that the (onsuls
whether acting in their Consular
capacity
or a 1
Emigration
Officers can be subject to no
authority but that of the Foreign
Office.
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regard.
to their leisure =
cration it would we think.
be desirable, before taking any itap, to era what account of additional labor is likely to be imposed on them. There is at Recent no fund out of which remuneration could be granted, and the only fource prom which it could be drawn would
probably
probably be a tax on denigeant
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ships in proportion to the number carried mi rach. The apprehead that the powers givere to the superintendent of Grade and
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to Legislative Council of tongthong
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under the Act Oxy would enable their to pap Irdinance imposing such as Tay, if the circumstances should appear to them to require
et.
The have the honor to be
Sir
Your Obedient Stumble Servants
Ave Mundock Redecir Roger