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He therefore instigates the employment of native brokers paid by fixed salaries whose functions should be to circulate notices in the interior and to assist with pecuniary advances poor families desirous of bettering their condition by Emigration.
11. On the whole it does not appear to me that the Law in Hongkong is ineffective or inefficiently administered. But I may draw attention to a passage in M. Thomsatte's explanation wherein he states that his Emigration Ordinance No. 6 of 1867 has been sanctioned by the Home Government.
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This ordinance (on which I reported on the 7th September 1867, No. 58/67) would strengthen the hands of the Colonial Executive in matters relating to emigration prior to Embarkation. Amongst other things it prohibits the embarkation of Emigrants unless they have been at least three days in a depôt approved and supervised by the Emigration Officer, and unless they have obtained a permit from that officer. Exception was taken to the ordinance on the ground that in two points of detail it was ultra vires, and required
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