CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 211

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patent to

every

one, that, as regard

the purposes to which these trouses were to be applied, callin them Inns instead of Barracoons was a distinction without a difference..

I took an opportunity of speaking to the Viceroy Juilin on the subject, & I will repeat, as nearly

as possible, what he said in reply:.

ago

That he wrote some time

to the Governor of Macas

that he had heard a new sptem had been established called "Inns & he feared these Inns were nothing but Coolie Burracoons under

another

another name, & reques

ted

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they might be suppressed..

To this the Viscount de San Januario replied that

it was time he had sanctioned

the establishment of Inns, but

were to accommodate Chinese who traced between

they

Macão & Singapore Penang

& Manila. Such traders, before the suppression of the Barracoons, having

been

accustomed, while at macas, to lodge in them, but, now were closect, they required Inns for their

They

accommodation. On the

receipt of this letter the Viceroy orcured Col. Pengynt to go

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