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Shanghai. August 4.1877 Received August 8th 1877
14:13. Acting Consul (A. Davenport)
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Postmaster General.
(A. Lester)
Post Office
Encloses petition as to vacancy at Shanghai reopen.
W62.
Shanghai, August 9th 1877.
I have the honor to enclose a letter I have received from Mr. Acting Consul Davenport at Shanghai, enclosing a petition from the Merchants of that place in favor of Mr. Rainer Sallas' application for the vacant Nativenesship there.
The petition no evidently misunderstanding my reply to a previous letter of Mr. Davenport's have
The Ammable.
Cecil Smith,
Acting Colonial Secretary