2. These Regulations, in the shape in which they finally passed the Executive Council and have been published, are the same as those on which I had the honor to report on the 31st ultimo, with the exception that the Fee of 10 dollars for a License of an Emigration House is omitted, (Article 5) that the employment of Native Doctors in Emigrant Ships is not left to the option of the Owners or Charterers but to the judgment of the Emigration Officer (Article 22), and that three Medicines,--Epsom Salts, Tincture of Opium, and Cholera Pills, are added to the list of European Medicines. There is no objection to these alterations. The second which is the most important is an improvement. No reason is assigned for the omission of the Dépôt License fee. Perhaps it is the want of Legislative authority for the tax. Indeed the Governor states his belief that Legislative sanction may be required for certain portions of the Regulations, and this, he adds, he will obtain should it become necessary. Nothing occurs to me to add to my report of the 31st ultimo, to which I would beg leave to refer.
3. But after all, if Chinese labourers from the mainland cannot, as Mr. SAMPSON reports, be procured for shipment from Hongkong to our Colonies without the inadmissible intervention of Native Agency,--and if Chinese Emigration from Hongkong to Foreign Countries be altogether prohibited, as Lord CLARENDON recommends, there will be little or nothing for the Regulations to act on.
I have, &c.,
(Signed,) S. WALCOTT.
SIR FREDERIC ROGERS, BART.,
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SIR,
Mr. Hammond to the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
FOREIGN OFFICE, September 30th, 1869.
I am directed by the Earl of CLARENDON to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 20th instant, enclosing a copy of a Report from the Emigration Commissioners, pointing out that the suggestion contained in my Letter of the 25th ultimo, as to the Emigration of Coolies from Hongkong to Peru being restricted to British Vessels would exclude Foreign Vessels from carrying Chinese Emigrants to British Colonies.
In reply, I am to request that you will state to Earl GRANVILLE that Lord CLARENDON is of opinion that there would be no objection to Chinese Coolies being sent to British Colonies in Foreign Ships, provided the terms of the Chinese Passengers Act were complied with, and that a certainty was obtained that those Coolies would be delivered in a British Colony.
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am, &c.,
(Signed,)
E. HAMMOND.
Colonial Office.
THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE,
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