to Hong Kong any Emigrant ships found within 100 miles of the coast of things not provided with
certificates or in respect of which the Government Regulations have been broken.
Other Government officers or Consulate officers at the ports of disembarkation should examine the state of Emigrant Ships, measures for the protection of the Emigrants and prosecution of offenders. With this object.
10. Consuls should be appointed at Foreign Ports (such as the Chincha Islands) to which Emigrants are taken and proper officers at any other Port to which the emigration may proceed.
& On these recommendations, the Law Officers observe that
Her Majesty's cruisers are not at liberty to board and examine Emigrant ships under the existing law - that no stipulation can be effectual without an Act of Parliament - that in any fresh Legislation Emigration should be prohibited from such Ports where there are no British Consular Agents, and that breaches of the law should