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Ships Articles arfew. On the arrival of the ship at Melbourne were adopted to lucipation Agent and Harbour Master at Hong Kong proceedings Enforce the law against the Master, and he was eventually fined £5. or 14 days imprisonment for Each of the 192/2 Statuti Adulti in excess of ships legal complement, Accounting 2.10.07 £962..
The Master was fined in all to a fine of imprisonment for nearly 7 1/2 years. Whether This penalty has been enforced the papers do not show.
The explanations of the Emigration Agent are to the effect that the Superintending Passenger Act had been very generally disregarded with respect to ships proceeding from that Colony - that its provisions were ill-suited to the Chinese Emigration - that pending a reference home the local Government had decided not to enforce the law.
And that in the Government Proclamation subsequently issued under the ...