by Earl Granville's direction
transmitted to the Foreign Office,- The bark
of
Clarendon, adverting
to the
atrocities practised by the Crimps in
China and
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the
the brokers
Foreign
drs.
treatment which
reported to receive in
Countries, has
conclusion
that
not only facilitating,
this Government
should abstain from
line should prohibit
Emigration from Hong Kong of
the
Chinese
Emigrants
British Vessels and
in
any
other
than
any
place not
within the
Dominions
of
the Queen
3. I
above
the report from this Board
alluded to, it had been
suggested,
Emigrant Depôt at Hong Kong
or the
that
the
opening of any
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despatch from that Port of any Emigrant
Ship without
License from the Governor,
should be prohibited by
Colonial Ordinance, and
it is suggested,
that the
Governor
as a general rule,
not
to grant
License for Emigration
to Foreign
Countries.
4.
"The tenor of
have
an obvious
the same
end in view:
- Clarendon evidently considers that the
measure suggested by
this Board
is not strong
enough,
therefore,
His Lordship's recommendation,
more
stringent,
would prohibit the
absolutely,
5.
The
theory
while
giving discretion to the Governor
has
certainly the advantage of simplicity)
despatch-