CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 459

8.

for that port

en

The 11th Instant with

187 pafengers, and there boing two

aw

she barsh for the

Dame.

destination- I desired the tarber

Master under strese circumstances to

make a special report of those who left on the 11th Instant, and have the honor to enclose it. It explains several peculiar characteristics of this novel Enigration, and amongst them detail the difficulty of inducing the Emigrants to embarke without

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contract - to which they attached) naturally

some consequence, as they

could not be expected to realize cavily

the fact that, if only landed in the

· States, their labor

was to be at one

Enclosure Mr G

14

Felmary /10.

#

No 195 of 11th

at their

now

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disposal, and that it

could command a ready market at

a high price.

9.

It is only necesary to remember what appears from a portion of the

correspondence with Mr Thornton,

no1gs govt tramwilted by Your Lordship, to have Decemba /69. been somewhat misunderstood, that

3.C.

13756-69 no contrado with intending Emigrants

7.6. 12854-69.

are

valid in the United States, and

2.co. Therefore, 12990-69.

pet

Enclosure No.

ď Oct 1868.

ever

if contracts had been made here, no protection to either

copy

contrading party could have been derived from thence. I enclose of a letter from Mr. Allen, late I United States Consul here on that subjed, in reply to questions addrefed