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for their maintenance and other expenses, according to Article 10 of the rules of the 5th of July of 1856, and Article 13 of the rules of 30:

of 30th of April of 1866 ; " I must inform your Excellency that since I have been appointed Superintendent up to the present time, no Coolie who has been sent back to his native Country by this department has indemnified any person whatever for his main -

tenance and other expenses incurred during his stay here,

conveyance to his Country.__

for his

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As to the 2nd question if any Some of these Coolies have been im -

-prisoned or compelled to pay such

indemnities, I beg

to state that

rone

of these neither did the regulations allow the

cases took place in my time,

detention of these Coolies in case of their

inability to repory such indemnities.__

And finally

finally in answer to the 3rd question, by whom have been post the expenses of maintenance andi

Conveyance to their native Countries

of the Emigrants who have declined

to emigrate and whose names have

been

published in the Boletim do Governo," "I have to state that these

expenses

were

paid by the Persons: in Charge of the Establishments in which the Emigrants

and such expenses,

old

vwere

lodazed,

Jam informed,