the sanitary, police, and customs regulations of those ports concerning the tenancy and the
arrival and departure of travellers. Nevertheless, the passengers admitted on board those packets who do not think fit to land during the stay of the said packets in one of the said ports, shall not under any pretext be removed from on board, be liable to search, or be subjected to the formality of a visa of their passports.
sommettront aux règlements sanitaires, de police, et de douane des ports,
concernant l'entrée et la
sortie des voyageurs. Néanmoins, les passagers
admis sur ces paquebots
qui ne jugeraient pas à
propos de descendre à terre
pendant la relâche dans
l'une des susdites ports,
ne pourront, sous
aucun prétexte, être enlevés du
bord, être soumis à
aucune perquisition ni
soumis à la formalité
du visa de leurs passeports.
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Opinion of the Acting Attorney General
I have already expressed my opinion that the postal convention contains nothing entitling the vessels of the Messageries Maritimes to exemption from the operation of the Chinese Passengers Act 1855, and a further consideration of Article VI has in no way altered my judgment. Admitting, what I am not at all prepared to admit, that the effect of an Imperial statute could be altered by a convention of this nature in such a particular, very plain words would be used, to express the intention, so far...