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to impede Chinese emigration to British best-funding, should be disallowed.
5. We are satisfied that both on account of the form and of the principle of this proviso it would not be desirable that it should be approved. If it is wished to exclude native Doctors, the expediency of which (as we have said) we very much doubt, that exclusion can be enforced by an instruction to the Emigration Officer.
And even that expediency, if we apprehend aright cases can hardly at rule, general fail to arise in which an exception ought to be made to it. But it is, therefore, we think, unadvisable in a matter of this kind to enforce a regulation by so rigid an instrument as a legislative enactment.
We would, however, go further and recommend that Sir S. Bowring should be directed to reconsider the whole of this part of the question afresh and before coming to a decision, to obtain all the information in his power from those connected with the results, Chinese emigration as well in Foreign as British ships, of the presence of a Chinese Doctor. If the effect should be to convince him that the employment