580
of
which I have the honor to
enclose, together with copy of the
Contract proposed to be entered into,
I deemed itmespedient
to late further steps in the matter,
as a
word
pom
me
to the
Anctionties would have resulted in
the
men
seizure of
and
The
the bouts and
imprisonment, perhaps
execution of the latter,
really is the
and it
business of
the Anthonties to protect their
own people
and discover when
the Laws of the Empire being infringed. Moreover
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United States Govemment. But in
the view of instructions having
lately been
received by the Colonial Government of Hong Kong from Lood Granville forbidding Contract Imigration from the
Colony to any but British Possessions,
forwarded these documents privatety to the Colonial Lecutary:
I may mention that Sapplied to Mr Hitzeroth, the Acting Consul for the North German Confederation, and Colonel Chenoweth,
the Consul for the binited States,
the subject,
any
such
for information
action on my parto might, have
Cansed complications with the
on
the grounds that Emigration
in
wa
denied to the British West Indies
Zimited.
except