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of

which I have the honor to

enclose, together with copy of the

Contract proposed to be entered into,

I deemed itmespedient

to late further steps in the matter,

as a

word

pom

me

to the

Anctionties would have resulted in

the

men

seizure of

and

The

the bouts and

imprisonment, perhaps

execution of the latter,

really is the

and it

business of

the Anthonties to protect their

own people

and discover when

the Laws of the Empire being infringed. Moreover

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United States Govemment. But in

the view of instructions having

lately been

received by the Colonial Government of Hong Kong from Lood Granville forbidding Contract Imigration from the

Colony to any but British Possessions,

forwarded these documents privatety to the Colonial Lecutary:

I may mention that Sapplied to Mr Hitzeroth, the Acting Consul for the North German Confederation, and Colonel Chenoweth,

the Consul for the binited States,

the subject,

any

such

for information

action on my parto might, have

Cansed complications with the

on

the grounds that Emigration

in

wa

denied to the British West Indies

Zimited.

except