CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6] — Page 88

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not see how vessels could be prevented - coming here, although the Master might not be able to find the said sureties, and that if the Ordinance was enforced, the Consignees would instruct Vessels to proceed direct to Whampoa or other

Bouts on the Coast, or remain outside the limits of this Harbor... As but a small portion of the Goods are for this market, the transhipments could. easily have taken place at any of the

very

very

good anchorages with which

we are surrounded.

Irespectfully beg at the...

same time to demark that I have not

in

found much difficulty in recovering, debts incurred by Seamen left i Hospital when they have been -discharged, or left there by the sanction

of the proper Anthorities, and considering the number of vessits

that

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that have entered this Post since it first became a British Possession;

and the number of wrected and otheñvise distressed British subjects who have been sent here as the nearest British

Fort, from the South Sea Solands, Munila, and other adjacent foreign

Countries, it will be found that the number who really have been left on shore in this Colony is

small.

very:

I have, &c. Signed A Tena. Beling Marker. Haster.

Inederist Md. Bruce