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articles in Hongkong newspapers. -_- In consequence of these representations the Duke of Buckingham & Chandos instructed Governor McDonnell
called on
received and lodged in a
till the shift
is
to
report whether the regulations of the Chinese Passengers Act were duly observed by the Emigration Officer at Hongkong, and if so how the alleged
abuses which were
existed could have escaped
By Governor
hous
detection
transmitted an
explanatory report from the Harbour Master and
Emigration Officer, which clearly shows, he observes, that
the
supposed abuses did not exist.
5. Mr. Thomsen explains that in practice the Coolies
are
ready
686
batches
to receive occasionally,
accompanied by
them, that he visits them,
a
Superintendent who
explains to each batch arriving the nature of the
they
are
they
the Contract
are about to enter into, -
that copies of this contract are posted about the building, that he subsequently attends with the Consul of the Country to which the Emigrants are going, & again explains the contracts, which are signed by the Consul and himself and handed to the Emigrants with their bonus and are individually
clothed, - that they
are