CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 64

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suggestions we

were made.

28th July, 1846.

is answer/

N6.

Mr. Consul Macgregor's

to letter of 18th Instant, having been this day received by the Board, was read and

considered.

Upon fully and minutely considering the foregoing evidence the Beard

are of opinion:

1.

it does not

That the boy marked 130 is not one of those in which the Treasure was packed at the Canton Consulate, because agree in size or shape with the two original boxes produced ; - it has not the same Chinese marks; the nails, used to fasten it are English and not Chinese as in the others;_ the wood is of a totally different description from, and much

heavier

heavier than that of the others; Stowage

are

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wood

(as found in it) was not put into any of the others; the ropes forming its handles English, and those attached to the others are of Manila hemife, the ink

kemp; with which it is marked is different from that found on the others; the size and shape of the letters on it's lid vary from those found, on the others, whereas

all the

genuine boxes were marked through a tin plate cuts for the purpose and therefore necessarily tallied exactly. - figures 1,3,0, have been painted after the boy was filled

filled and nailed up, as the O is contracted and brought

The

close to the iron bind

binding

:ding and part is shown under the binding, whereas in the others the figures

are

partly hidden under the binding, thus proving that their

numbers