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unintentionally lost or mielaid by

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the Custom House Authorities at u Jau Franaico in Califorma, and a Certifiente to that effect by the Deputy Collector of Customs at Lan Francisco was produced, and from this declaration, coupled with the advice of the Attorney General, Letter of License under the 8th and 9th Victoria, Cap: 89, Jic: 29, was granted to the said Lawson to navigate his russel, until the expiration of Two years, or mutil his return to the United Kingdom. This tessel was built at Hilton in the County of Durham, A. D. 1850, and mereured 290 tons, her own the

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owners were

wecentors of Joshua Haigh, late of Halifax, Yorkshire, Merchant, deceased-

4- It appears that the "Herald" left

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this Port for thaughre in April

and departed from

last year,

Shanghai laden with tear. for Scotland, on the 26th of the following August; the Agent's there (at thaughre) were besers Hargraves the :_ that __ seven or eight days after leaving Shanghae some of the crew comperived of an incufficiency of water, but there does not appear on

the face of any of the Proceedings taken either here on at Batavia, that they had any just cause for complaint, but from that period the plow for dectroying the Captain and others

was comine

minenced, and in the latter part of October last, two days after passing Augier, the conchinators - carried out their purpose and dectroyed in the most cool and determined manner, the Captain,