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the exempted

should be specified

by

name instead

of

being determined

by a general rule.

I am unable to agree in his suggestion.

In the extract

J

the Emigration Commissioners report

which was transmitted with

despatch, are explained the

grounds which render it necessary to forbid the

exemption of the

Chinese Emigration

to Australia and

California from the provisions of the Passengers Act. The

same reasons

appear to me to

forbid the exclusion of voyages the length of which is fixed by law at 45 days,

and

I consider

that the extreme limit has been

reached in adopting Council's

four

recommendation that voyages

not

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