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Sam directed to notify you that Bir
Richard Mae Donnell is willing to
undertake that this Government provide the return passage for each of the Sikh Potiremen, but that it will be necessorry
to dedract
one dollar per
mendem
a boid.
from the pay of each man, which in the event of his proving to be character will be expended in procuring him a passage to India, while otherwise
it will be returned to him on his
learning the Colony. –
His Excellency trusts that
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this arrangerment will meet with the
concurrence of the Governor General in Council, for I own to state that were it not for the great satisfaction
which the conduct of the Sikhs has given to Sir Richard More Donnell he would not have fett justified in
sitteration in existing marking
arrangements which might operate injuriously,
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giving a certainty.
to ill-condusted men of being able
to return to India at the cost
of this Government.-
Shave Fo
(Signed) Cecil 10. Smith,
Acting Colonial Recretary
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Acting Colonial Secretary.