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any other man ought to be allowed to go free on any other conditions.*

56. As to the number of men that you ought to send, it depends on the boundary question. If we are to continue our business in the present scale, we will require forty whites to replace these retiring and deaths and to enable us to allow some of our Sandwich Islanders retire as it does not do to have too many of them. I am

Your obedient humble servant

John McLoughlin,

C F.

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• To go free: that is, to be allowed to terminate his contract and remain in

the country, as the Company were under bonds to return all men into the civilized section.