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To their embarking Coolies at Macao
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And adopted this course in the belief that Your Lordship would desire to have my opinion and remarks upon the character and fittings of those Vessels after a personal inspection of them; and accompanied with this view I was by the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Harbour Master.
B. The result of our visit and examination is contained in the enclosed Memorandum marked A, drawn up by the Acting Colonial Secretary and myself immediately on return to shore.
I need not offer any lengthened comment upon the contents of the document, which is painfully confirmatory of all that has been previously stated of the character of the so-called Macao Coolie Vessels.
I subsequently, in compliance with Your Lordship's despatch, No. 193, November 28th, 1872, held a conference with Mr. Wones, Chief Justice, and the Attorney General, to whom I read the Memorandum.
6. While those officers were fully impressed with the necessity for relieving this Colony from all possible imputation of any of its inhabitants participating