I thank my friend from Texas for the favor. Now I want to call the attention of the committee to another thing. I find by the reports of the custom house in San Francisco. that in 1869 14.990 emigrants from the port of HongKong arrived in San Francisco. I find also a letter from Mr. Gonlding. United States consul. stating that each of these emigrants had been required to pay $2 a head. At that rate there should have been paid as consul fees at HongKong $29.980. And yet in a report of 1870 1 find returned there but $6.761.20 of fees. making a difference of $23.218.20. which has never been accounted for by the American consul. or at least I am unable to find any report accounting for the balance.
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