consider I could thereby legally justify
i refusal to permit the proposed Emigration.
Nevertheless, as it appeared to me on the face of the authority given to M Nicaise by the house of Valdeavellano that he had not adequate authority to sign Contracts legally binding on that house And as possibly they might be repudiated, I again consulted the Attorney General on that point, but he decided that such Contracts would be binding.
7. Finally I called on Mr Nicaise to give security in the event of any repudiation of the Contracts that return passages should be provided for the Emigrants. He accordingly lodged in Colonial Secretary's Office an engagement by Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co to hold credit for £1500 to my order, being that, if necessary, I might remit the money to the British Consul at Callao to expend in bringing back the Emigrants, but if such step was not called for by the circumstances, that letter of Credit was then to be cancelled.
8. It may probably appear to Your Lordship that I raised a great many unnecessary difficulties but I felt that extra precautions in the case of Emigrants were called for in the case of Emigrants under contract to work for private employers without any sanction from the Government of Peru, and I could not but feel that I ought to be in a position to prove that I had