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not less than 50,000 dollars
a
20.
day.
tecordingly,
I caused
it to be made known to the
boatmen that the Government having considered their representations had decided to be satisfied with the taking out of licences by
C
the headmen
of
each boat.
When this decision was made
at once
Known, I am -informed that the people at expressed themselves content.
Some
539
Some hundreds of licences
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(
(
have since been taken out
in accordance with this
decision, and no
further.
difficulty has occurred.
21.
I should mention
that the merchants present
at the meeting referred to, explained the difference between the opinion then expressed with regard to the regulations and that to be inferred from the sanction of the regulations by the
Chamber