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to bonsul Winchester in which he

states that he does not understand the extreme susceptibility of the foclonial Authorities (i.e. this Government) seeing

that the Board of Trade, and not the balony, bears the expense of maint destitute seamen, and that the Colony

naintaining

does not scruple to send that banton and other Perto FC

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claps to

b I have

of my

long experience

never in the course

ce come

acrops any Officer

changed with superintendence of distreped

seamen who is more conscientious and

abut in the discharge of his duty towards The Board of Trade than the local

•Harber Mauster Mr Thomrett I also

keel ufoured that, in maintaining

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vigilant

exercise of his functions for the purpose of preventing the improper &

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any

discharge of distressed beamen in part of the China seas, and in so managing the general distribution of men when unavoidably placed in

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that position, as to reault in their either obtaining early employment or being supported for the least posible time by comperial funds, he takes a conect view of his the Board will approve.

duty

and one

which.

b. I am therefore glad that, if for

mo

ther

reason

than that

Sir Rutherford Alcock

viz

given by

to avoid

"the trouble and corespondence entailed

by requently recurring complaints with