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1 and Slipendiary Magistrates, however, of the Governor's so great in such matters for the prevention of abuses in a British West Indian Colony that there is no parallel between the case of thither under protection of Her Majesty's Government and an Emigrant to Peru or elsewhere.
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I have not heard that similar stipulation has worked badly in Surinam, and in the absence of more exact information as to the treatment of Emigrants in Peru I can offer no opinion as to the probable result of permitting such a provision to remain in future Contracts for labour.
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1 5.. I apprehend, however, that its exclusion from Contracts would not put an end to Emigration, a result which I think would be greatly to be deplored, but nevertheless I wish to draw attention to the subject because it is under colour of that part of the agreement that the greatest abuses prevail. Thus I am told on the arrival of Chinese Emigrants in Cuba, they are sold by Auction, the purchasers becoming the Assignees of the party with whom the original Contract had been made,