the United States law, contracts afsuming

any disposition of

or control whatever over

of such

emigrant

:

are

absolutely void.

your letter

I have t

(signed)

Isane J. Allen

M. S. Consul

the personal service or labor

of

For passage money paid for

use

such emigrant, recovery may be had,

as in

the

be

any

Contract:

other case of money an judgment of recovery will, however,

for

the amount actually advanced

and exefended, with interest thereon at

the rate fixed

"fixed by law; and no more.

I beg that

You

will submit

to His Excellency the assurance of my hearty desire to cooperate in all

Measures appropriate to the protection

emigrants alluded to in

of

the

(True Copy)

Martin Motin

Colonial Secretary

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