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mial Office
May 1876.
In & Thornton
2. 20 may/76
C.O.
10202
REC® Rec 20 MAY 2
250 Foreign Office
6 May 1892.
Repatriation of James Campbell,
American lunatics, from Hong Kong.
one arote
in
A case similar to the present 1876, when this Hong Kong Goot requested
the intervention of this office with a view to the removal from the Colony of a
lunatic
ramed Sarah Bennett, who was alleged to be a native of Buffalo, State of New York.
Sarah Bennett left new York
Stewardess on
board an American Barque,
ao
but as she appeared to have abandoned the sea since 1863, the U. S. Consul out-Hong Kong refused to send her home at the expense of his Gout, on the ground that she was no longer entitled to the benefits of the Act- " for the relief of destitute American
Seamen.
Sir 2. Thornton was
then requested to
bring the case to the notice of the U.S.
Goot, and to this representation Mr Fish
replied