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any disposition of

or control whatever over

the personal service or labor of such Emigrant-

are absolutely void.

For

passage money paid for

use

of such emigrant, recovery may be had,

as in

the

any

other case of money contract:

judgment of recovery will, however,

be for

the amount actually advanced

and expended, with interest thereon

at the rate fixed by law; and no more.

I bey that

you

will submit

to this Excctency the assurance of my hearty desire to cooperato in all measures appropriate to the protection of the Emigrants alluded to in-

your

ou letter

I have se

" (Signed) Isave J. Allen. A. S. Consul.

(True copy)

Ilgandina Austin Colonial Secretary

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