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being lively to create
difficulties between Frenchmen and certain of the Departmento of the Government (especially the Harbor Department), that I requested M. de la Forest so to modify it as to indicate to his Nationals that the instructions did not apply the laws and regulations of the
Colony..
2.
Upon receipt of the
to
letter which had caused to
be addressed to him, he
called upon
upon the
Acting
Secretary and apparenity
Concurring
in
bolonial
my suggestion
drew
an amendment to
up the notice which he stated
he would at once have published...
To
3.
my surprise an
appeared
amended notice
d in
The Newspapers, but without the paragraph which he had drawn up and which he had agreed to publish.
This second notice
4.
seemed to me
as
as
objectionable
that first issued, and I therefore dirented M. de la Forest to be requested to withdraw the notice altogether._
30 August, and 2 September, 1873.
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