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perseed your Ectitioners gave directions Chrough their Seenetary to the Inasters of their vessel's
of and other employe's thereon not to receive on board such vessels
Mort
prosmizers than could be lawfully amried according to the provisions. of the said Ordnance and the better to enforce such orders
Petitioners caused
a
your
to be
system which they considered
adopted which they
calculated to attain those ends; For your Petitiouers state
illustration
the
kakx
of the Kishan mine : hundred and twenty passengers being
the maximum number which can legally be carried thereon, that number
:
of small ( prices of bamboo or tallies wore delivered to a gate kuper placed at the entrance gates of your
Betitious
-premises at beautou and Hongkong
each person desiring to takes
the steamer one of such -
who
gave passage
in
tallies, he then admitted him to
the wharf from whence on presenting his tally to the Quarter Masters of the vessel specially appointed for the purpose, he was allowed to.. proceed on board; without these tallies
no Chinese
wore
permitted to curbark
nine hundred and
the wine
und upon the
twenty tallies being exhausted the was locked and no feather ... passingers allound to pass thorough.
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