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United States Consulate Hongkong August 22 1873
Mefor Jardin Mathesourls
Gentlemen.
I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 200 inst, asking,
me to certify
Tuences of prepared Open to be
chipped on the British ship Lemindai from Macas to San Francis
isco.
In reply I have to
say
that in the course of a correspondence
I have had with the Colonial
Government upon
- expon that subject
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serious doubt has been raised in
my mind as to the propriety of my certifying.
the Invoices named in letter and therefore, acting upon instructions from my Government,
your
to be
in such cases I deem it
my duty to submit the question to the Department of State at Washington and to ask for special instructions; which I shall accordingly do by the outgoing Main the honor to be the of Jet inst
on
I have
Sir
Your obedient servant
(Riquids) David H6 Bailey.
United States Coucul