CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 408

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United States Ornonlate at Hongkong,

BAN

Sir,

receipt of

Hon:

October 5th, $868.

have the honor to acknowledge

your

letter of the 3rd instant written by direction of His Excellency Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell, requeating

to be informed in relation to the law of the United States bearing upon contracts with

Chinese Emigrants for passage hence to the United States.

ch

reply I beg

J. Gardiner Austin

Colonial Secretary

to state that, by

Hongkong