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when
Carrying
more than 20 Chinese
Passengers for a voyage of
days
duration
save
Seven
within the
provision of that Law, yet it must
be
equally clear that the Act was intended to apply solely to Coolie's Emigration, which, at the time of the passing of the Act, required to be placed under controls
very
strict
It is highly important, too, that the Government should still be able to protect the Chinese Coolie when emigrating (in the
proper sense
of
the term) to Foreign Countries, and therefore it would be
most unwise to alter the main
provisions of the Act. But in regard to the complaints which
have
given
rise to this
a marked distinction can,
correspondence I consider
very properly be made between the Coolie Emigration, contemplated
by the Act, and the thinly veiled Passenger traffic
carried on along the Coast
of China from Shanghai, and from thence to Singapore, Strait Settlements, and the Dutch and Spanish Settlements in the neighborhood of that Colony.
In each of the places last mentioned large Colonies of Chinese
have
sprang up, and a number of Steamers
running
to the
a continuous