the great Ports of China, And besides this obvious probability
there is some Evidence to warrant the expectation that
a respectable Emigration might be more
Easily carried on from places of labour like Macao (where Government Superintendence "can be secured there) than from Amoy or Canton. The Royal Navy hardly adds anything which improves the character and lessens the risks of the trade lands to draw respectable Merchants into it and to increase the Emigrant's chance of proper treatment.
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20. Much regard points to which the attention of the Secretary of State for Colonies is particularly drawn (suprà paragraph 9) I beg to state that in many British Colonies to which Chinese Emigration is likely to proceed (New South Wales and the Mauritius) there exist Immigration Agents,
who are charged with the duty of inspecting and reporting on Emigrant ships, and to whom the instructions suggested by the Board of Trade might be issued whenever there appeared any chance of a renewed Emigration.