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have eventually disseminated in all parts of the Republic the disease against which we are labouring to protect it.
For this reason both the Board and the Ministry of the Interior supported the decision of the Delegates in respect to the removal of the "Suisang" to a distance of two miles from the coast.
The immigrants were not unprovided with water and provisions; in the first place because at the time when complaints to that effect were raised the "Suisang" had not yet left the Port, and secondly, because in lieu of only twenty-four hours' grace as requested by the British Consul, the vessel remained in Port from the 16th, the day on which the order for her departure was given, until the morning of the 20th, thus allowing amply sufficient time for obtaining the necessary supplies. Neither could such supplies have subsequently been wanting, for as may be seen from document No.42, the Delegate made application to the Chief of the Port requesting him to indicate some spot on the wharf at which the "Suisang" could take on board her supplies.
This communication bears date the 19th of June, as I have just been informed by the second Medical Delegate in a telegram dated the 4th instant which has not been included amongst the preceding copies. Neither were supplies wanting whilst the vessel was lying two miles off the shore, as is proved by document No.43 giving particulars of the accounts against the vessel for water and provisions supplied to it by means of the Tug "Ramon Corral".
The foregoing prove that the complaints made by the Chinese residents in Mexico before Their Excellencies the British and Chinese Ministers are entirely devoid of foundation.
The procedure adopted in the case of the "Landrat Schieff", the vessel which arrived at Salina Cruz subsequent to the "Suisang", has been precisely the same as in the case of the last-named vessel. All the vessels which have previously arrived at Salina Cruz, whether belonging to the China Commercial Steamship Company