Ordinance No 25.
Fr 11 781/65
434
The Govt of the Province
the Province of Macao
& Timor determines
by
the following:
For view of the necessity of obviating
by means of due
regulations the abuses that make themselves felt successively
in
the Emigration of Chinese - abuses the origin of which resides for the most
part without the limits of the jurisdiction of this Portuguese Colony, & to which, at the same time, it
is only possible to apply a remedy when their influence detracts from the beneficial intervention exercised by this
Govt in the
Act of engagement;
In view of the fact that some provisions of the last
"Regulations for Chinese Emigration" dictated by the necessity of often repressing the abuses then prevailing are at present practically superfluous, & even
in some
respects inconvenient, as for instance in the case
of the delay, not
infrequently excessive, of vessels at anchor
in port with emigrants on board;