Supported
"Tropic", and which assertions were by his delivering false receipts and certificates signed by Stanford purporting to show that the opium specified
on board, and was
was
of a given quality.
Receipts and Certificates
were
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false. Sternford
was arrested the next day as I have above
Stated, and the "Tropic" and all on board
ៗ.
5.
It would appear to have been the
custom to put entire faith in the integrity
of these Receipts
and
lo
Certificates.
and to
Value
of
the
I advance money
very nearly the full
Merchandize they were
supposed to represent..
b.
σ
on for
This state
of affairs
had been going
some time when, on the 13th June,-
Rustomjee suddenly left the Colony
I proceeded to elbacas.
proceeded
and
The holders of
Opium Certificates taking the alarm -
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instituted Enquiries and
found that the
taken possession of by the Police,
J
May
observe here that ellz Charles Jameson, the other partner of the
Firm of
apparently
Jameson
ameson and Company, is not
in
any way implicated in
these fraudulent transactions
8.
On the 23rd July live letters were
addressed to this Government by eltr Pollard
on
behalf of Certain Clients of
his in which, after stating that the Merchandijs
found
on board the "Tropic" had
in
Consequence
of Stanford's conviction Es cheated to the brown, he petitions this Government, if possible to waive the forfeiture. There
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