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(kelung).

On the 7th inst, the Harbour Master ( Captain Thorsett pr. 2) reported that the Master of the German Inerchant

Hea meer

"Ingraban", of 891 tous, applied

for a clearance for kelung, the Cargo:

: consisting of coals and provisions; that this

| ship had beew chartered

by

8. Marty (a French subject and therchant resident lure) " for three rnoutter, to trade betweens " Hong kong and any Porto in China or

"Japan, the first Voyage

and p

to be to kelung and

"back to Hong kong," "Mr. Marty had

declared that too

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avt aw

outtur cave, he gave

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· opinion to the

effect that there appeared good

reason to

suspect that the ship in question might

remployed to attend the French mew- - of-war blockading parts of the island of Formosa, and to supply thens with coal and provisions in furtherance of their operations; that he was inclined to- recommend that permission to clear for

kelung should not be granted unles

should agree

M. Marty

to enter into an

bond in a substantial suns (fifteen

Cargo

lows Consigned

to

thousand dollars) that the coal would not be sent ow board the French len-of-war, but would be bona fide landed at · kelung.

his agent at kelung, and would be landed

there.

3.

Ow Consulting the Attorney General

(two O'Malley)

The Attorney General, however, admitted that there is nothing in the Foreign

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