CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12] — Page 195

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in May last, the Harbor Master

was

required to grant a Port

Olearance when arrlied for,

SULLY

Pate in Ports the Master

may

chose to ciem for, there was res

Clear

authority for withholding

this

dreument. A

was

given

to the

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Iusannah in the same manner they have been given to all othe Cesels from this Office, indeed I had no power to refuce it.

I would be permitted to add

appears

most respectfully that it to me, that both the clearner

and the beats of the Miniter of the

Susannah'

nah were

is the point of

If

perfectly legal up

his arrival at

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Arica in Bolivia, at which point Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affairs

دة

permitted him with his "French Agent to sell the humigrants Slaves, an action mot ouly illegal but diametrically opposed to the nature of the voyage set forth the Port Clearance.

in

over the illegal tramcnctions of the Master of the "Susannah. I had is Control, and therefore confidently hope that the Honorable the Licut: Gorema will free me

me from

from the charge

I granting a paudulent Port Clearance.

(True Copy)

Estonial Secretory

I have, He.. (Signed) R. P. Michelle

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