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Breads :
That for the present at least we <'annot do without the Ghant - Terang system, for should these
Men be reduced to leave this
Colony, they would at once proceed
to Macao
**
to
dome
Opium Station, taking with them the whole of the Tascars, as the Ghaut Serangs have hitherto had so much. influence, that it will take sometime before the Lascars
can
be made to see their own interests,
and
d free themselves from the
degrading state of absolute slavery to which they
are al
1 present subject Ships requiring Crews would as in
days be
be
would have to
obliged to ge
to them,
have to pay large advances,
and would not as at present have
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the protection of British Law's to inquire into their conduct; therefore, I am of opinion that the evil_ cannot be avoided, though with good arrangements the system. - might be bettered. In
my opinion it would be advisable to grant a certain number of Licenses to Heep Lascar Bearding Houses, paying annually $50 de Goverment for to the License, - the Owners of which should enter into bonde. not to Keep above
a certain number of boarders each, and above all not to allow their lodgers.
-to Run in debt to them more than what two months advance could
pay : this would prevent the Chaut Serangs or Boarding house Steepers them lenger
longer than
delaining
they
could
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