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having with evident reluctance and some alarm, stated to me that this Shum thing has received a large sum of money from his master, who is the owner of a Macao Barracoon, for the purpose of procuring Coolies in this Colony, and that he the Portuguese had been sent over here from Macao by his Master, to see that Shum Shing performed his Contract.
I have taken one of his Shum Shing Shopmen into custody on a charge of kidnapping, with probably it will be necessary in order to bring home the offence to them (which involves also that of false imprisonment) to obtain the evidence of some of the persons who were kidnapped by them and who are now confined in some of the Macao Barracoons.
(Signed) D. R. Caldwell, General Registrar
Herewith Copy to the Hon'ble Secretary