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as

information there

to the practice of Foreign

Governments and instructions jeans to their Consult and Agents

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محمدان

The instructions to

own Consuls and Agents

but as

promised to read, they have not been

perhaps for count

asking

dent to me

of

arc

Official letter ash

for chine, - I can only state generally that they

they are authoris

I believe under several different Acts of Parliament

to relieve and send to cheer destination Shipwrecked Seaman of "British Teasels " and Shipwrecked

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distressed British Subjects

سمه

( the authority to relieve distressed subjects is given

by 6 Geo: 4th Cap 87 ) the latter

at the same rate as

as possible

ad

far

as the farmer ::

drawing I believe

are

the

Lords of the Admiralty for the amount of relief given

to Deamen, - and

air

the

Lords of the Treasury for

that given to subjects not

Seamen

Colonial Tessels

and Colonial Sutherl

are

I believe entitted to relief- under the acts and Instruction. I gather that our Comin

and