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passengers being mustered and the Contracts explained by the Emigration Officer all but 81 declined to go. Meport Lyall, Still + 6 = were told

-that a

certificates could be

rantist

for such passengers only as had signed their contracts and come on board willingly with a full knowledge of the premises, that this present refusal to pronced

made evidence of consent in

each case nec

necessary.

They

replied that they were not prepares

with this evidence as the contracts

had for

the most part been

witnessed

witnessed before the procurador

of Macao, they preferred therefore

to receive

a clearance for the

number now cons

-senting. There

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was no evidence of fraud Violence in collecting

collecting the men,

but on the contrary proof of

unusual care.

June 2077

(signed) W. Woodgate

7°