Agent, on which point you will receive from the Prussian destination instructions hereafter. If it be decided in the Affirmative, you will of course communicate with the British Consul at Amoy on all matters connected with the enforcement of the Chinese Passengers Act at that Port.
Thirdly, if the transshipment alluded to by Mr. Robertson be made from one British Vessel to another, this latter becomes immediately liable under the Act.
In the event of such an appointment being made...
A Chinese Passenger Ship under the terms of the Act sailing from a port for the high seas does not violate the Act, but she cannot be said to evade it, since its enactments fully extend to her, and if she deviates from them she remains liable to the penalties of the Law. Should a British Vessel carrying Chinese Passengers be met on the high Seas without being...
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