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year 1978 baoning been Seven hundred
16 that on the 94th of September
and, 1977 owing to the returer to Wongkong of a vast mumber of Clines:
the celebration of the Drast of Lauterus in the interior of -
after
China, the steamer" "Minshan" arrived
ti
Hongkong with a large number
of passengers
in excesA
of the.
-
number allowed by the said. ordurance, and that in consequence the Inacter of that vessel
summoned and
Enagistrate thee
:ficied by a Police
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of Pour thousand
of
and timely dollars, all of which
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hundred dollars.
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into the matter
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examined
afterwards
your Petitioners
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pleased to revict on bringing the facts before your -Coallway by Reletion.
That on the 17th and 18th 2
17.
of Sebruary
your
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Petitioners believe of great number
of Clurese Tradesmen and coolies -- retwining to Hongkong after the New Year's festival, large, unumber of such people flocked to the
steamers at bauton auxions to
return as speedily as possible to: thus bolony where they earn their livings, in consequence of which although all care was taken byh