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of fact they are untrue. It is not a m

principle or the merito of a system

which

is under consideration and which would

therefore admit of discussion.

It is simply

a.

question of fact as to whether the

Emigration Officer

here does

or does not

excercise effectively, that Sunveillance for which

he is responsible,

permits.

10.

and which the Law

I new inclose the report of Mor

Thomsett, the Emigration Officer, on that

Subject

and

I cannot but think that it

comincingly proves that in ever

every

man

permitted by the present state of the Law

his duty as Emigration Officer has been

well and

Satisfactorily discharged.

beg to add my personal testimony.

and I

to the

fact, that his anxiety to do his duty

well has always been most marked-

and that he is one

of the best Executive

Officers of this Government.

M.

1. I nevertheless consider it wident

that the existing

existing state of the Law

of the Law admits

of improvement and it that I introduced last

No t

of 1867-giving

and ne

was

for this reason

year

Ordinance

the Executive

enlarged

necessary powers of control. To that

hacked bos Dadinance Her Majesty's Government took

Wide

Wick Sexy of State some techinal objections, and it will, when

Ito Gant 1 of 230

Sent: 1867.

bed I might amended as

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required, be passed by the

course

U degislature in the

of a fortnight and be law before the renewal of Emigration

at the approaching season

12. With the increased powers proposed:

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