should be punished by forfeiture of the ship, which would make shipowners careful how they chartered their vessels to improper persons.
9. This plan is apparently referred to the Colonial Office with special reference to the 9th and 10th of the above suggestions, which require this Board to sketch the proposed Regulations and the Secretary of State to appoint Emigration Officers at the Ports to which Chinese Emigrants may proceed. But we may perhaps be allowed to offer some general remarks on those parts of the scheme on which our official experience enables us to form some judgment.
10. The main object we presume would be to enable the Local Authorities, with as little interference or interference as possible from the Imperial Parliament, to control effectually the collection, the Embarkation, and the treatment during the voyage of Chinese Emigrants in British ships.
11. In regard to the collection of migrants, we think that...
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