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