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to deserve Lir. C. B. Lytton's very
serious consideration.
If indeed the abuses of the
Frade in question
are so
• great
Do
to
general, and so viremediable
as
render it necessary for the credit of
the British nation that this hade should
rw
o longer.
be carried
[.
on
under the protection of the British
Hag
there
may
on
that ground
be a reason for passing and enforcing the proposed Bill.
:
As regards the question whether the facts are such as to sustain this hypothesis My Lords have not sufficient knowledge of the whole case to form an opinion. The cases which have been brought
to
to their knowledge are undoubtedly
ECIES
of very great
it and flagrant abuse, but their attention is not necessarily called
to any cases except those in which The Colonial
deaths
Office
are numerous.
- and the Emigration Commissioners will however no doubt,
bt possess much filler information on this point, Should
the facts prove sufficient to sustain the hypothesis above stated the proposed
remove a
Bill if strictly enforced will no doubt stain from the British Flag but it will, My Lords fear, for the reasons above stated, be of little or no advantage to the Chinese Emigrant, if it does not prove to be a positive injury to him
09.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's obectunt servant,
y
I HL
X Farrer
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