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and I can believe that finally he might nevertheless be compelled to do so under the harsh frovision which requires a man without money to refay 1/1⁄2 his intended ḥassage money, and all the cost of his maintenance. -

7. I morcover,

I moreover, see no provision

in there Regulations to compensate a cs_called Imigrant, imforberly frocured by violence or franx, for the

On the

MA

injury inflicted on him. contrary, it would seem,

to be

the con

were

thought wrong

wrong, and that in

added to

such an

unhaffy but by

means improbable case, the

no

farly Kidnapped would be competed to proceed on the voyage or pay half the intended cost of a passage, which he loathed, and of his maintenance during a confinement which must have provoked his ntrnost indiquation._

8. Consequently, I regard there Rules as little better than a sham, so far as regards any

frovision for redres to an Immigrant

who had been improperly Kidnapped.

wrongfully detained.

Nevertheless, I think it not

that on further

improbable, that on

consideration, the Governs of Mace

may

introduce some

change

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