With the compliments of Emigration Officers; together with a
copy of a Report
which His Lordship has received from the Law Officers of the Crown upon the points adverted to in Sir John Bowring's despatch; and I am to request that you will lay the Enclosed Papers before Lord Stanley,
and that His Lordship will move him to furnish Lord Clarendon with his opinion as to the propriety of appointing an Emigration Officer at Amoy or other Ports in China,
and also as to whether Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary should be authorized to alter by Ordinance any of the Provisions of the Chinese Passenger Act (HO 20/56, 279) to exempt any particular class of Vessel or Traffic, or any such voyage, as from Amoy to the Philippine Islands for instance, from the operation of the Act.
I am to add that Lord Clarendon proposes to communicate to the Admiralty an Extract of the inclosed Report of the Law Officers respecting the capture by Her Majesty's Ships of War of vessels which are "not British Vessels."
I am, &c.,
Your most obedient humble servant,
Shelburne
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