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12. During the time I was a prisoner at Cavite aforesaid, and again whilst I was residing in the said Consulate and under the protection of the British Consul, I was closely guarded by a file of Spanish soldiers carrying rifles and fixed bayonets, told off for the purpose, and was therefore unable at any time during my stay in the Consulate to leave the house I was confined in, or take auy out of door exercise.
13. Having been so refused a passport to leave Manila as hereinbefore mentioned, I, on the sixth day of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Four, secretly got on board a vessel bound for Hongkong, where I arrived on or about the tenth day of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Four.
14. Since my arrival at Hongkong I have caused to be filed with the Spanish Authorities at Manila my claim in respect of the property which I have been so wrongfully deprived. Much correspondence has taken place on such claim between myself and the Spanish and German Authorities at Manila, but up to the present time without result.
15. Neither at or before the time I was so made prisoner by the Spanish Authorities had I been trading, or had any dealings whatever with the Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, or any other of the Spanish possession in the East. Nor was I, either directly or indirectly, engaged in or guilty of smuggling or of any other illegal practice as regards the said Spanish Authorities, or any other Government or Authorities whatsoever.
16. Neither on the occasion of my arrost, nor at any time subsequent thereto, was any charge made or preferred against me of having violated the Spanish Laws in trading illegally or otherwise with the Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands or any of the said Spanish possessions. Nor was any other charge whatsoever made or preferred against me.
17-I estimate the loss of time and the damage and injury I have sustained by the wrongful conduct of the Spanish Authorities as hereinbefore mentioned at the sum of Five Thousand Pounds Sterling.
18-I further make oath and say that all the facts hereinbefore deposed to by me, save a portion of those mentioned in the 6th paragraph of this Declaration, are within my own personal knowledge.
And I make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King WILLIAM THE FOURTH, entituled, “An Act to repeal an det of the (then) present "Session of Parliament, entituled 'An Act for the more effectun! abolition of Oaths and Affirma "tions taken and made in various Departments of the State and to substitute Declarations in lieu "thereof, and for the more cutire suppression of voluntary and extra-judiciol Oaths and Affidavies' " and to make other Provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths"
Declarch so dyo form of law at Victoria aforesaid,
the
Eighth
day of
June
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five.
Before me,
Sigurst G. D Field
(Signed) Saliymple, J.P.
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