CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7] — Page 296

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instructions respecting

the conditions

the Contract to be entered into,

pared

ait

by which I thought

"loing justice both to the Company

uch the Minigrants who left at my

requesĆ.

Poefore the departure of the.

ship I sent a soly I

the contract

to this Excellency The Governor, who,

directed me in reply Fourbour hasler

For

to

apply

to the

instructions

resecting the Passingers Act. Thi had already been done and I had reecived a note from A. G. Thomsett, here, in which he is pressed the

satisfaction it gave

him that I

employed Wohang, as his acquaintance

with the shifting of mery would soon

him much trouble.

The

members of the Tahiti

had

company, though British Subjects, large interests at Tahiti, and were therefore, in a very delicate faction They did not venture to es

single wish, and the their letter reads thus,

express even

passage in you

hereby

you are

"invested with full fowers to act in the think best on behalf

"matter

as you may

"of the Company".. "To not, therefor

that may

перечану refer any question

"for

arisc

our direction, but act to the "best of your understanding, being

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assured of the approval of the Directors. The Consul for the Netherland

An la brez AV ŽIL-

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