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references backwards and forwards to
The
one concerned,
annoyance of every the liberal intentions of Imperial
• Legislation
in reference to distreped.
Seamen will no
longer
be thwarted
¡ by disregard of a reasonable
economy
in the expenditure of Imperial funds.
There does not appear to be the least.
claims
difficulty in reconciling the just of distreped seamen with a due regard to the equally reasonable expectations
The Board of Lade, provided there be unifamity
in the practice and objects fof both bolonial and bonsular Authorities in their respective Parts.
As, however, the evident tenor of Rutherford Alceck's observations on
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was
the conduct of the Authorities here to intimate, or rather to apert, that they "felt no scruple in sending seamen to "banton and other Ports to the bonsuls
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papage home,
for Maintenance" when there were no means or, at least,
feuser
means of providing such papage at those Perts than at Honghing, I
thought it right to call on Mr Thomouth for an explanatory report, which I also Enclosure No3 have the honor to transmit
8. Reference to that report will Strust comence the Beart of Trade that such allegations against the Authorities here
absolutely without foundation. Not
are
merely
are no seamen
ever sent
from
here with a view to their
a view to their being maintained