practised in regard to the Emigration
(Chinese coolies, he was directed to
transmit to him
1
the accompanying
Letter from the Colonial Office,
enclosing
a
copy of a Report from the
Commissioner of Emigration upon the same
subject; and to request that he
would take
these Papers into
consideration and Report to G. L.
Officer thereupon.
In obedience to
G. L.'s commands,
I have taken these papers into
consideration and have the honour
To
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Report, That
we do not hesitate
to dissent from the Report of the
Emigration Commissioners, who must
be more
familiar than ourselves with
this question. We cannot however
refrain from repeating
That the
penalty of forfeiture of the ship
should be enacted.
as the most effectual remedy -
We still consider that the
attaching to serious offences against
the proposed enactments the penalty of forfeiture of the ship, is a
Measure