CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9] — Page 423

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being lively to create

difficulties between Frenchmen and certain of the Departmento of the Government (especially the Harbor Department), that I requested M. de la Forest so to modify it as to indicate to his Nationals that the instructions did not apply the laws and regulations of the

Colony..

2.

Upon receipt of the

to

letter which had caused to

be addressed to him, he

called upon

upon the

Acting

Secretary and apparenity

Concurring

in

bolonial

my suggestion

drew

an amendment to

up the notice which he stated

he would at once have published...

To

3.

my surprise an

appeared

amended notice

d in

The Newspapers, but without the paragraph which he had drawn up and which he had agreed to publish.

This second notice

4.

seemed to me

as

as

objectionable

that first issued, and I therefore dirented M. de la Forest to be requested to withdraw the notice altogether._

30 August, and 2 September, 1873.

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copy of the

correspondence

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