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forward this correspondence to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs, so that in the

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event of your deaming some modification desirable

on this head in tho "Consular Instructions the question may be considered at home in Communication with the Colonial Office,

I have to, /d/ Rutherford Alcock.

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Correspondence with Sir R. EacDonnell, the Good of doughing reef 5. the transmission of distreped brit: seamen or cubjel to from the ports in Chine to the Colony. The practice

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objected to by the Calmist Excentive

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the ground of the 8xpense, it does or

Colony.

may Entail on the Clay,

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my

reply J. R. will see theat. I have agreed to direct the Consals until of wrther orders to send distriped Brit: subject home a not to doughing when it becomes to remove them from a Chinese necessary

Port. But as regards

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Brit, seamen I have

besitated to prohibit their removal to

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donghong to besides being a Briti (along

also a large seaport offering many chance,

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