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sent here for medical heatment when it is unobtainable at the Port of discharge,

do I object to the,

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reception

of shipwrecked seamen when it is impossible to provide

for them in any

other way,

but I do object most strongly

to the almost in discriminate

discharge of men

Consuls on

by the

the condition of

their leaving the Ports at

which they

are

discharged

for the invariable destination

of such men is Hong Kong

and in b

the

many

instances

y

system has been encouraged by the Consular Authorities paying steam boat passages out of the

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mans wages, thereby placing

it almost beyond a doubt

they that will either land here

destitube or become so

after their arrival.

shortly

I have 16:

| Signes / 26.G. Homsett

True Copen

Harbor Master 16.

As Momsett Harbor Master, 16.