CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 471

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No brokerage or Commisions have been paid to any Chinese for procuring the Coolies, and but for the doubt

which exists in the minds of the in

intending Emigrants in consequence of there being no agreement signed under Official Supervision at this Park,

has hitherto been usual in the conduct

of Cemigration; the departure of the

required would have been

laborers

hastened .

8.

As it is, there has been a good

deal of delay and the sailing of the two other vessels on the birth for New Orleans has been protracted.

The

names of 500 Coolies were

entered in Mr. Gift's books and were

fed

and lodged by him

for.

dorns

days, but

in

for sequences of the apparent uncertainty attending their reception and treatment

in arrival in the States o large proportion of them withdrew? 10: Two hundred and twenty five actually embarked whilst the Ville dist To lay here, but of these 25 re landet.

The remaining 197 received an advance of $10 wach, 10 subsequently

returned to the shore and did not

prosed in the ship so that although the Ville de St. Lo cleared with

195,

187 actually went to sear in her:

19.

dome

bart

Mr. Gift tells me that he had

difficulty in preventing his laborers

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