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individually again asking them if
they
were desirous of proceeding in
the Ship.
Coolies
in and wer8/
similar
continued to come
placed
Movrner,
on bound in de
As each successive
as
few.
batch went off I visited the Ship and signed and issued the continuals previously stated. Occasionally Coolies
who had been living on board a days objected to proced, when they immediately landed. It has also harppened that the relatives of Coolies who have signed their agreements,
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and received bonus ands clothes have called
sit my office and requested that their - friends should not be allowed to leave China. Their wishes have been acceded
to in every
instance, although it
must
not be forgotten that had the Agent... (Mr Bank) obsimed that the Coolie should be held to his agrement, it m would have been a difficult matter to compet its cancellation, but no obstruction
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of this sort has ever been made. This is the system pursued with all hired
Coolie Ships. The above will show His Excellency that
visits during
my
the Stary of the Marie Therese,
have been
must.
very frequent, giving ample
-opportunities for unwilling emigrants--
to complain . If
"finally visited and
inspected the Ship
the day of her
departure, remained on board until
she weighed her anchor at which and
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