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not less than 50,000 dollars

a

20.

day.

tecordingly,

I caused

it to be made known to the

boatmen that the Government having considered their representations had decided to be satisfied with the taking out of licences by

C

the headmen

of

each boat.

When this decision was made

at once

Known, I am -informed that the people at expressed themselves content.

Some

539

Some hundreds of licences

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(

(

have since been taken out

in accordance with this

decision, and no

further.

difficulty has occurred.

21.

I should mention

that the merchants present

at the meeting referred to, explained the difference between the opinion then expressed with regard to the regulations and that to be inferred from the sanction of the regulations by the

Chamber