Copy F. 20.
enfay
7. C. 4854
5182 chong long
·RECEIVED
Lie
letter
C:0: MAY 8 1869
of
Immigration board. May 1869.
7°
419
I have to acknowledge your
in
zu inets with a despatch from H. M. Chargé d'affaires bern on the subject of the treatment
of Chinese labourers imported into that Country from Macao.
2.
The circumstance which immediately gave occasion to this despatch was the branding, by an employer with a hot iron, of 48 Chinese who had been allotted to him. This atrocious act of cruelty called forth a strong
Sir Frederic Rogers Bart