10.
nvas
which the Executive attempted to interfere with Chinese Emigration that authentic information had been received of cruelties practised upon the Emigrants at certain places of destination which turned their servitude into absoluto slavery
11.
Accordingly in September 1854 the then Governor of Wongking (Sir J. Bowring) ipued. Proclamations in the Gazette in which after reciting that "authentic information" had reached ther Majesty's Government of the crueltion and oppressions practised in the Chinaha Islands, he notified that the
conveyance
of Chinne Imigrants to that place in British Ships would be visited with
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the sitiost rigor of the Laws for the
suppression of the Slave Trade.
12.
These Proclamations were
afterwards withdrawn upon official
afourances that the abrises had been
Old Edition of remedied, bust
Margthong Order
p.19 (1841-1834).
every Emigration contract
" for Perne exprefly excepts labor at the
Chincha Islands
13.
Or
in the Guans trade.
The Chime Pafenger Art I
removed all question
as
to the legality
of the exportation of Chinese Imigrant- under the conditions which it impreses, and I conceive that in the absence of such auchentic information cruelties practised at the place of
destination
os
woulds
an
ed satisfy any
to
reasonable person that compliance