AGENT!
there are no
Consuelo,
And there trans-
shipping them into
other vessels which
Carry all
those Passengers
to the West Coast of America, Havanna,
and other distant destinations.
I am desired to enclose
a copy of a report from the Law Officers of the Crown to the Foreign Department on this subject: The fact is
that the device alluded
to by the Consul at Shanghae cannot
strictly be called
an evasion
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An evasion of the
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of Parliament. If the transshipment be made
from
one British Ship
to another which is
proceeding
on
a
long
voyage, the latter becomes immediately a Chinese Passenger
Ship under the terms
of the Statute. In
sailing from a remote
Port she
may indeed
violate the Act, but
she cannot be said
to evade it since
its enactments fully
extend to her and if
detected