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British ships from Fort, not open to Foreign Trade should be prohibited, unless the shippers can be brought under the regulations or if no Emigration agent can be appointed there.
5. No ship should clear with Emigrants without a Certificate from the Emigration Agent that the Government Regulation had been complied with.
6. The Emigration Agents Empowered to require that the contracts of the Emigrant, should be fair; that a surgeon and Interpreter should be on board.
... next that the Government cannot avowedly control emigration without virtually sanctioning a thing what is technically at variance with the Laws of the country; without - perhaps some interference exercising some in Ports to which our treaties do not permit us to trade - And thirdly that although laws binding on all British subjects within 100 miles of the Chinese coast may under the Act be passed by order in Council or by the Legislatures of Hongkong, yet no law can be passed...