that the Penalty
7.0/3811. Sir George
The Legislature Council
to be
to be attached
to serious infractions of the
proposed Law, should be the
the Vessel, and,
forfeiture of £20
as it is desirable that no time
should be lost in bringing in
a Bill, I am to state
that
Lord Canning & would be glad
of an early
communication
etc.
23
the
our most obedient
humble servant, Woodcock
*
J.W. Ollion — 23 April
Mr. Merivale
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24 April 1855
Gentlemen,
With reference
to
your
report of the 23rd of February,
relative to the measures to be adopted for
depressing abuses in the Emigration
of Chinese on board British Ships,
I am directed by the
Lord
Layard
to transmit to you
a Copy of a
letter
which was addressed
to
the Foreign Department
together with the
Copy