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themselves before the au
there to confirme
Shouly.
or annul their
first enlistment: those who still
persist
:their resolve being-
obliged to go
007
board.
which is previously
the a
authority.
ce
vessel.
visited by
But this is not
all, Sir, even at the last hour,
when the ship is about to weigh
wncher, the an
thority. in the person
of the Harbour Master, gues
board in order to make the lust
interrogatory
to the
emigrants, cond
lands those who seem
to be
dissatisfied . This is, Sir, the
theory of our regulations .
But, Sir, you say
with that
practical skill that characterizes you,
that theory may
and
be very defensible
sympathetic, but the facts
gainsay the theory, and that abuse
gets the better of the regulations,
and to confirm this,
you
adduce
fact which is doubt
doubtless much to
be lamented and condemned. There
is
no doubt. Fii, that there
may
perhaps glide some abuses in to
practice of such a difficult traffic, but you may.
in
be
assured that I
am
deing alls
my power to overcome them and I will always
do
endeavour
root them out: Moreover it
must be supposed, Fir, that there.
a great blindness in the Chinese
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