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the eva way for satisfactory arrangement in respect to migration, come as the atrocities committed at Macão which have come to light; and the inability of Governor to check abuses, might have involved the British Government in very embarrassing questions. He adds that Macao is only 40 miles from Hongkong and the inconvenience of going from the former to the latter very little indeed. and that there is only a Consular Agent at Macao who is engaged in business as Ship Surveyor, and is neither sufficiently independent nor sufficiently provided with the means of information to be entrusted with the duties of Immigration Agent.
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4. The grounds now stated in justification of Sir J. Bowring's decision are, it will be seen, altogether different from those which he before alleged. The abuses in the collection and shipment of Coolies at Macao might have been a sufficient ground but those abuses were not discovered till after the transaction in question.