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strict conditions for a return passage
at
1. which the Peking
the end of five years -Conviction contemplates. I would profu
weeing
whether strict supervision of all Emigration from this Port under the enclosed
Ordinance cannot effect
the
innoc
good
both
for employer of labor and the hired laborers
in British Colonies and in these places where an honest Government supervision is maintained over the Emigrants
23.
The subject is certainly one of
not
be
importance and cause the considered dispend
same
of because it might be easy to reply to the enclosed Memorial. I should certainly think it desirable to be invested with authority to revise and modify all Contracts, and to prohibit Emigration of hired laborers
under
any
circumstances.
in
any Vessel.
from this Colony to the Havanah, is the place where from time to time I might have good reason for regarding
the
Emigrants as being unfairly or cruelly treated
I have the honor to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's
most obedient, humble servant,
Robert Franks
Governor.