CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 142

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was of their

Seamen, but after explaining to them the small probability there beeing able to obtain employment either

There or at Hongting, they preferred

to take their chances at your

Port

josug

If these firemen made a bad bargain for themselves originally, neither bansul

nor Harbor Master

ناک کا کام

make it

a

good

one by claiming for them exemption ham the stipulations they have signed

I have VC (Signed) 6. A Winchester.

(bopy)

اننده دار

In reference to

140

Peking December 6th 1867

your correspondence

with the Harbor Master at Hongkong,

and the subsequent complaint from that official touching the shipment of William Wood for the boolony from Shanghai, your

for

attention has been so recently called to

the provisions of the Mouchant, Shipping Act for the discharge of seamen and the disposal of them after discharge that I conceive further instructions on this head must be unnecesary. It is to be regretted

6. A. Winchester Esq.

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in the

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