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since

Government Lunatio Asylum

e January last, and whose condition is reported by the Acting Colonial Surgeon to be incurable, and to request that a representation may to the Government of the United States of America with a view to her repatriation.

be made

I attach a copy of a letter from the Chief of Police,

San Francisco, to the American

Consul in Hongkong, from

which

you

will observe that

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Enclosure

14th August 1895

aw

n attempt has been made to restore the unfortunate

to her relatives.

woman

There

to be no

appears

doubt as to the American Nation

ality of this woman who has been maintained at the cost of

this

Government ever since her admission into the Lunatic Asylum and, who, unless she can be repatriated will be-

come a

permanent burden on the finances of this Colony.

I

an