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Enclosure 1.
Starbour Macter to Acting Colonial Secretary
No/34
Sir,
Harbor Department,
Hong Kong, 10th June 1849
It has been brought to my notice that some seamen have, through a misapprehension as to the law on the subject, been shipped at the United States Consulate whereby the Colony has been deprived of the fees payable under Section 7 of Ordinance No.9 of 1848.
2. I am informed that the United States' Ship Alice E. Dickerman shipped ...
Ston: F. Stewart, H.M.S.,
To Colonial Secretary.