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advised
the Attorney General
that there exists at the present moment no legal provision by which the Passenger Traffic here can be regulated...
I have also informed the officers concerned with Emigration, but have refrained from giving official publicity to the state in which the Colony is situated, as I am led to expect recent instructions from Lord John Russell's despatch No.11 of 5 June 1855, that an Act of Parliament for Chinese Emigration generally shall be put under proper control.
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I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
Your most Obedient humble Servant,
Blundell