CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12] — Page 312

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herewith) that in spite of stungent regulations & the contrary this practice continues, I is so exprament It habits of the people that it will not easily be stamped act.

From the passage mached hoven-

that the regulations

I wo! seem referred to were

i a

way

openly broken

that was expose the

traders to punishment.

This

may

sometimes be the cask

but I understand that the usual course is for the trader & protect himself by giving the prevent & recruit who immediate of hand, it ver to his Chicf a family

Against their there

com

السما

& although it anotot exactly the

the practic

Jame

thing, could not easily be

pal down

MINUTE PAPER.

Jeannel think (anything else

apon which Mr Labouchere might fasten

Although abreses may exciel, it in in recruiting that they come

Ling

When

M

before

Polynesian

is allotted to a planter, he is

generally fairly well treated, & Cestarit not kept in slavery". Commodne Wilson bean this testemmy to Luscarland & Foji (especially the latter) at page 4 of the same Report.

they

If this, as is very frequents

A case, very com

afler

the

expiration of bei engagement, it

his

and from ill treatment on the plantation,

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