and
Board
for Chinese reigation, and by such regulations to supersede those appended to the Act, but it gives no power to alter the
provisions
of
the Act itself - how
the length of the voyage which will
length
within the operation
Passengers Act, we
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thought it possible
that it might be reintroduced
in the Session lately closed, and
in that Case
the alteration in
question could have been inserted
in it.
5. In regard to the insufficiency
the proposed alteration may point out that it was the suggestion
not of
bringing
a
of
of the Act
is fixed by the limit
of
the Act at
forty
days
and
cannot, therefore,
therefore, be
allowed by the
local legislature.
I must add that it was never
supposed by
that this alteration
of the local Legislature
this Board - the Attorney
The Attorney General
observed that the limit would
only include
the Ports of China
and
but
favourable
could be made in Hongkong, as
a Bill had been introduced
in
the previous Session of Parliament,
but not passed, to alter the Chinese
Passenger
Slave and
Manilla, and, in the case
of Singapore. But that in the
latter places has been fixed
by
the voyage
6.