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United States Ornonlate at Hongkong,
BAN
Sir,
receipt of
Hon:
October 5th, $868.
have the honor to acknowledge
your
letter of the 3rd instant written by direction of His Excellency Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell, requeating
to be informed in relation to the law of the United States bearing upon contracts with
Chinese Emigrants for passage hence to the United States.
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reply I beg
J. Gardiner Austin
Colonial Secretary
to state that, by
Hongkong