is so
great
that it is believed that
this branch of business alone with
Kay
one, if not hos, steaners if. unnecesary restrictions are impred
on them. It however, they have to
M
run under the Chinese Pepengers
act, it is more
than doubtful if the traffic would prove remmerative
Would you
you
therefore inform me i consider tant act strictly applicable to them considering following circumstances. –
the
The matter seems to turn on the question whether so Steamers the fapage hence to Manila should be esteemed "a voyage of more than seven days duration". By Sir John
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Bowrings Proclamation of 120 March, 1887, the computed length of voyage from Amoy
to Manila, in the South West moonsoon, was to be
deemed Twenty-five days. It would
I appear from this that steamers
could not have been contemplated
in the framing of the Proclamation as the distance is something lef than seven hundred miles, and
matter of fact I believe that there is not an instance on record
If a steamer having taken more than six days for the voyage in
A trifle
over four hour would make the
that moonsoon.
miles
an
days. Should
hapage under seven days