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Invoice.
Emigration under Contract for Service, I think, is plain from the paragraph of Mr. Olivay's letter which states that "Chinese Emigration should not be allowed to take place from Amoy except when the protection of Her Majesty's Government follow the Emigrants throughout their whole servitude."
I apprehend that the Executive have justly considered that these instructions have application to no sort of Emigration except that which is carried out under Contract for Service. Lord Granville in Despatch placing the restriction refers to regulations for such Emigration, and the employment of the word "servitude" in Mr. Olivay's letter indicates a similar reference.
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I may here state that since the receipt of those instructions Emigration under Contracts for Service has been allowed, and emigration has taken place from this Port. Attempts have been made to induce Chinese Coolies to go to America under Contract, but owing to the activity of the Officers of the Government such malpractices have been exposed, and steps have been taken to promulgate not only in Amoy but in the neighboring mainland of China the fact that