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I grant the certificate which

could not grant

they had applied for.

buring my

examination of

the Chinese on the 18th instant I

could not be otherwise than

impressed with the idea that,

although there was no written

contract then exe

exishing

between the

intending Emigrants and their

still there was and

employers,

impled me.

which appeared

appeared to

justify the withholding the

Certificate to cuable the Abbotsford

that to proceed . The evidence on occasion, elicited that the men

were to be engaged for a period of two years, carpenters receiving

$10

a mouth each with food,

lodging, and Medical Attendance;

and the men produced papers

enabling their families to receive

: portion of their wages,

their wages, during

a

the absence of the principals from Messrs Edward Schellhass &be.

The men stated that they had been promised two mouths advance of wages, one mouth of

which

was

to be paid them in

cash after their embarkation, the other mouths wages was to repay, sixteen dollars, cost of passage to Ackeen, and two dollars for the Charterer or collecter of Emigrants or both. They also stated that

after