and

the limitation of the contract to 5. prars and the stipulation for a back passage the emigration will be a slave hade in disquice_

he suggests

that it is incon = sistent in Her Magsity's Govern= =ment to reeish those stipulations

on the part of the Chinese Govern= mont, seeing that they insisted exactly the same stipulations

au

as

Indians in the

respects Indians

Conventions with the

Frsnek

Government in 1860-61. -

3.

course natural

stie of cours

that Sir. R. Alcock and W. Wade

uring those stipulations in the French fonvsutions, should have apuined that St. M. Government had made the limitation of the

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residence to 5. year a condition of

the emigration. But the fact is that for several years before the date of those Conventions the term presidence of Indian immie grants in the British Colonies had been extended to 10 years_ under indenture the first five

with a

break at the end of the

third yeas and the last 5: Jree--

by

Mie

But the French Government appasculty sel no store terme of residence not under indenting, preferring (what was conceded to them) that the termi

of indenture should be for years without break- and the provision ford return passage of throse 5. years followed therefore.

at the and

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