"possible decrits and 1 yet I must be a candid as to tell, to tell you that 19 think that according to the law of principles, the regulations in vigour in this Colony concerning emigration are unattackable.
plain tribunal by declaring language their desire to emigrate, but still elapse six days during which the enlisted emigrants live gratuitously in those famous barracoons, which are neither prisons, nor unhealthy places.
the Chinese pressed by hunger come from the mainland to anywhere the work obtain an which they cannot get in their country. They find at Macao an enlistment for honest labour under the auspices of the authority; they consequently enlist very willingly.
they have been represented; because such houses are frequently visited by administrative as well as by the medical surgeon, the said emigrants being at liberty to change their purpose or to keep to it, as they please.
After the expiration of the said six days the emigrants present...