CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5] — Page 138

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(Copy.) No. 22.

Sir,

Victoria, Hongkong,

21 March 1856.

In reference to your letter of the

21st instant, Mr. ... I

have the honour to state,

That I was not labouring under

any suspicion, that the "Levant" had not her regular papers. Sometime after the

vessel arrived from Southampton the crew

were discharged, and, when the master came to enter a fresh crew, he brought this ship's Register to the Office, merely that the damage might be taken from it and inserted in the new articles; being under a Foreign Flag and not

at the Port, he was the person in whose custody the papers might be placed,

Honble.

W. J. Mercer, Esqre.,

Colonial Secretary.

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(Copy.) No. 22. Sir, Victoria, Hongkong, 21 March 1856. In reference to your letter of the 21st instant, Mr. ... I have the honour to state, That I was not labouring under any suspicion, that the "Levant" had not her regular papers. Sometime after the vessel arrived from Southampton the crew were discharged, and, when the master came to enter a fresh crew, he brought this ship's Register to the Office, merely that the damage might be taken from it and inserted in the new articles; being under a Foreign Flag and not at the Port, he was the person in whose custody the papers might be placed, Honble. W. J. Mercer, Esqre., Colonial Secretary.

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(Corpy.). N. 22.

Sir.

2,4

Victoria, Hongkong,

21 March 1856.

134

Me reference to your lettern of the

21th instant, Mr. 188!

linion to refint,-

I love the

سلام

That I wow

Mot

1202

hord I.

any surfiision, that the "Levant" had is regular papers :_ Sometime after the - vessels anical from Whampion the crew. were divelenged, and, when the master come to outer a fresh crew, he brought this Hip's Register to the Office, merely that the Jamage might be taken from it and inverted in the new articles; being under a Foreign Thing sath a count. at the Port, he is the person in woline custody the papers might to be placed, Homible.

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