" Passenger traffic betiveen China and Ports in the China Sea or the
Eastern Archipelogo, the persons proceeding to those places generally, being passengers in small Numbers in vessels of large burden, and
net Emigrants
usually
a.s
that term is
understood.
"That therefore the Chinose Passenger Act of 1885 should
not be applied to persons proceeding..
to such plans, going on voyages of less than
and that Vessels
I wenty
-one
Days
duration should
in any special
not be interfered with in
Manner:
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" That it is further the opinion of
this Council, that a marked
difference in legistation should be made between Chinese Emigrants
and
providing their own passage.
outfit, as those provding, to Australia and
California almost thow going to
invariably do, and those, the West Indies
or
elsewhere under
for labour, the one being
contracts for
an inde
independent Class, woche able
their own interests, and
to care
for
the other entirely dependent on their
employers. That the thousands who have been conveyed to batiformis
and
Seven
Australia during
years
the
foast
have been so in a